The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Transparent and the Evolving Culture of Shame
There's a ray of nuclear longing at the center of Transparent...
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Kenny Ng
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Nicholas Rys lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His writing has appeared online and in print in various journals like Volume 1 Brooklyn, Split Lip Magazine, Witch Craft Magazine, Entropy, Electric Literature, and many others.
The Saturday Rumpus Review of Wild
In simplicity there is truth, and being out in wide open spaces often has a way, like high-speed rail, to bring us back to simple things.
The Rumpus Review of Birdman
Birdman boils down to the same essential question of how we spend our days, and how those days add up to our years. How we make our story matter, and whether legacy is the point of existence, in how we measure the worth of our lives.
The Rumpus Review of Boyhood
[Boyhood] focuses on the fact that we should be paying more attention to ourselves, right here, right now. It isn't asking that you be heroic, but it does ask you to be brave enough to live your life, and elevates the everyday to a higher, more melodic plane.