Jeremy Hatch is a writer, musician, and professional bookseller leading a cheerful, aimless life in San Francisco. He is the Junior Literary Editor of the Rumpus and has a blog which he updates once in a while.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…