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Jeremy Hatch
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Now playing: Winnebago Man
There’s a pretty good chance you already have an idea who Jack Rebney is, even if you don’t recognize the name; if you don’t, you should immediately watch one of the clip reels that made him notorious: this one is…
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Amazon Now Turning Authors Against Publishers
You probably heard the news that Amazon has struck a controversial deal with literary agent Andrew Wiley. It works like this: digital rights are separate from print rights, and Wiley sold an exclusive 2-year license on digital rights, for a…
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The End of Forgetting? Not Quite
Scott Rosenberg has written a thorough takedown of Jeffrey Rosen’s NYT Magazine piece, “The End of Forgetting.” When I read it yesterday, I felt like there was something amiss about it, and Rosenberg ably diagnoses the principal issues with Rosen’s…
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #4
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Just a quick post today. Such a vigorous discussion about the book as a whole has been going on at our previous post…
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William Kunstler & Agnès Varda on POV
This Tuesday and next, the PBS doc show POV is broadcasting two great documentaries that I highly recommend. Tomorrow at 1o pm (check local listings; your date and time may differ) check out William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. Kunstler made…
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The Rumpus Review of Micmacs
A slapstick farce about one man’s revenge on a pair of rival arms dealers, Micmacs succeeds as comedy but attempts to ignore its own political content.
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #3
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Welcome to the continuing Rumpus Book Club Blog, where a Rumpus contributor reads the book of the month and regularly blogs about his…
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #2
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Welcome to the continuing Rumpus Book Club Blog, where a Rumpus contributor reads the book of the month and regularly blogs about his…
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #1
Welcome to the first post of the Rumpus Book Club Blog, where a Rumpus contributor reads the book of the month and regularly blogs about his or her reactions. It’s the first move in a conversation that we want you…
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Why Roger Ebert Thinks 3D Sucks
A little while back, Roger Ebert wrote a great article on Newsweek entitled “Why I Hate 3D.” It’s a fun read, an entertaining rundown of all the ways in which 3D is a pointless novelty that mostly exists to help…
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Gary Snyder Event May 3rd in San Francisco
On Monday evening, SFIFF53 is presenting a short documentary about the life and work of Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild, and I recommend it; the film is interesting, plus this event will be a rare chance to see…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #6, Weekend Picks
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. There’s some great, possibly-overlooked-by-you stuff coming up in the festival today through Sunday, and these picks will give you the details on: a documentary by Tim…