Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling Discuss Lolita
“I think it’s shocking. I’m glad it’s shocking.” (via The New Republic) Part two is here.
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Julie Greicius
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Julie Greicius was Art Editor for The Rumpus when it launched in January 2009. One year later, she became Senior Literary Editor, and later, Senior Features Editor. Julie also co-edited the first book published by The Rumpus, Rumpus Women, Vol. 1, featuring personal essays and illustration from twenty kick-ass contributors. Her writing been featured on The Rumpus, Midnight Breakfast, Stanford Medicine Magazine, and BuzzFeed, as well as in the anthology The 27th Mile. She lives in California and is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board.
Calvin Tomkins on William Kentridge
The January 18 edition of the New Yorker (online for subscribers) has a superb, in-depth profile of South African artist William Kentridge by Calvin Tomkins. Kentridge, who worked in drawing,…
69 Love Songs, Illustrated
If your heart lingers well below the baritone range, then you probably love the music of The Magnetic Fields. You’re not alone. A collection of “mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and…
Eustace Tilley, Your Way
Eustace Tilley appeared on the first New Yorker cover, in 1925, and has returned for nearly every anniversary issue since. For the third year in a row, the New Yorker…
“I draw on cups. Yes.”
Cheeming Boey does astonishing, finely detailed artwork on white Styrofoam coffee cups. For most, he draws freehand with only a black Sharpie pen. For others, he does painstaking pointillism. But…
The Fiction Project
When the Art House Co-op talks about making art accessible, they’re not just talking about viewing and consuming. They’re all about generating inspiration for artists of every kind by creating…
Yue Minjun: It Is Funny
Almost everything that Chinese artist Yue Minjun paints, sculpts or prints includes at least one man—closely resembling the artist himself—locked in laughter. Minjun’s work is delightful, infectious and brightly ironic.…
Thomas Allen’s Pop-Up Pulp
The January 2010 Harper’s Magazine (print) features a few photographs from Thomas Allen’s “Epilogue,” the last in his long series of photographs of transformed pulp fiction book covers. This was…
Mikael Kennedy: Shoot the Moon
I think I’d like to make my second home inside one of the dreamy, grainy Polaroids shot by Mikael Kennedy. In his photos—a drifter’s gallery of people, places, moments—all light…
The Rumpus Interview with Paul Madonna
“Even the things you love can take so much work that sometimes they bring you to the breaking point. So you might as well be in the most comfortable place…