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Jeremy Hatch
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Care to Join the Conversation?
A while back, the Rumpus quietly launched a new series: Conversations about the Internet. And we hereby invite interested writers to join in.
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By the Seventies We Were Living in the Future
Synth Britannia is a documentary about the emergence of British synth pop (trailer here), from the “sinister” 1971 Moog score for A Clockwork Orange to Depeche Mode, and the Telegraph has published an interesting review of the film. First key…
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Chelsea on the Rocks: Twilight of the Hotel Chelsea
Abel Ferrara has attempted, with mixed success, to capture a little bit of the legend and a little bit of the sordid actuality of the Hotel Chelsea in his new documentary feature, Chelsea on the Rocks.
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A Battlefield at Night
The site EnglishRussia recently published some stunning photos of the Russian Army doing battlefield exercises at night, taken from a hill high above the field.
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Manny Farber on Sunset Boulevard
Recently I bought a copy of Farber on Film, and I’ve been flipping through it, sporadically reading here and there; last week I happened across his famous piece on Sunset Boulevard (1950). These lines and observations are fairly well-known, but…
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Writing as a Radical Way of Living
Last Monday I had the good fortune to catch a talk given by Natasha Wimmer, translator of Roberto Bolaño’s novels the Savage Detectives and 2666, at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. In the course of her opening remarks,…
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Pictures of Space that Look Like Pieces of the Heavens
Last week Alexis Madrigal wrote a fascinating article on Wired.com about terrestrial astrophotography; that is to say, photos of the night sky taken from the ground. Most such photos that you can find online are vividly colored, as if they…
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So Who Won the Nobel Prize, Again?
As you’ve heard by now, the Nobel Prize in Literature this year went to one Herta Müller, and even if you’re an avid reader and fancy yourself some kind of intellectual, you probably haven’t heard of her until this morning.…
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Conversations About the Internet #2: Scott Rosenberg on Blogging and Journalism
What motivates bloggers? They care. It’s as simple as that. To a lot of journalists that comes as a shock, because for many (not all) it’s just a job, and it’s a job they’ve been doing many years, and…
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Meet Philip Glass, Plumber
The Independent has an interview with Philip Glass that makes for pretty good reading despite a lame lede joking that the reporter nearly constructed an interview out of one question, asked repeatedly. Knee slap! But what piqued my interest —…
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Bolaño’s Translator in San Francisco Tomorrow Night
Today the Center for the Art of Translation held one of two events in San Francisco featuring Natasha Wimmer, translator of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and 2666. At today’s event, Wimmer made some fascinating introductory remarks about translating Bolaño (of…
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The Book of William, Reviewed
The Book of William — the new book chronicling the fortunes of Shakespeare’s First Folio, by regular Rumpus contributor Paul Collins — gets a nice brief writeup in the “Nonfiction Chronicle” feature of the NYT Sunday Book Review: “Part antiquarian-book primer,…