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Michelle Orange

Michelle Orange‘s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s and other publications and has been collected in The Best Sex Writing 2006 and Mountain Man Dance Moves. She is the author of The Sicily Papers and the editor of From the Notebook: The Unwritten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a collection found in issue 22 of McSweeney’s. Follow her on Twitter @michelleorange.

Music, Rumpus Original

Michelle Orange

Feb 23, 2012

Habeas Whitney

The one that got me was a torso shot. There were a bunch of them published even before she died, frantic paparazzi pictures of Whitney Houston leaving last night’s party.
Features & Reviews, Politics, Rumpus Original

Michelle Orange

Nov 1, 2010

The Rumpus Interview with Megan Stack

The six years Megan Stack spent in the Middle East reporting for the LA Times began as a sort of emergency assignment and ended with Every Man In This Village Is A Liar, her indelible memoir of an education in…
Film, Rumpus Original

Michelle Orange

Oct 26, 2010

And This Is Word For Word: The Theory of Relatability and Rethinking Justin Long’s Face

There was a night last month where I couldn’t sleep. I had to be up early for another full day of screenings and filing at the Toronto International Film Festival, but my mind was cycling through a generic course of…
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Michelle Orange

Sep 22, 2009

Re-Commencement: Notes on an English Professor’s Retirement

My father knew he had a jealous daughter, and I knew he was impervious: the books—and the inner life he cultivated with tremendous discipline—would always win.
Art

Michelle Orange

Sep 17, 2009

A Life in 3,653 Pictures

Almost every time I’ve been home to Toronto in the past six years, and visiting with my dear friends Greg and Meredith, I hear a really great story about Meredith’s friend Jeff Harris, who’s the photo editor at Maclean’s and,…
Video

Michelle Orange

Sep 15, 2009

Annals of Advertising: Eyebrow Dance

More from the annals of advertising.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Michelle Orange

Aug 3, 2009

Hoping Things End Safely: The Rumpus Interview with Hyejin Kim

North Korean women risk their lives to escape across the border to China, where they often face lives of indentured servitude and the ever-present fear of being outed by the husbands they marry or communities they join and sent back…
Film

Michelle Orange

Jul 6, 2009

Ryeberg: The curator for YouTube fatigue

Ryeberg is a site that features videos curated by various contributors accompanied by short essays. Contributors include Mary Gaitskill, Russell Smith, and the reliably compelling and often as reliably insane Lynn Crosbie. Check out her recent post dismantling the psycho-sexual…
Video

Michelle Orange

Jun 18, 2009

Oshiya Tokyo Train Pushing
Film

Michelle Orange

May 12, 2009

Fade to Orange: “Do I Know You?” and Other Impossible Questions

Recently I rewatched a great film by Lynn Shelton called My Effortless Brilliance. I enjoyed it so much the first time that I wanted to show it to all of my friends, ideally while I sat beside them, beaming.
Other

Michelle Orange

Apr 9, 2009

Glenn Kenny on Editing David Foster Wallace

Film writer and former Premiere editor and critic Glenn Kenny talks about his experience editing David Foster Wallace for that magazine in the mid-to-late 90s and his friendship with the author in this wonderful interview at The House Next Door.…
Blogs

Michelle Orange

Mar 13, 2009

FADE TO ORANGE: The Theory of Receptivity and Some Thoughts on Ethan Hawke’s Face

Call it the Theory of Receptivity. It’s the idea, often stated by young people and applied as a dismissive accusation to even marginally older people, that one’s taste in music, or film, or literature, or fine cuisine, petrifies during life’s…