Columns
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Rock and Roll, Harems, and Modern Love
Author and Rumpus contributor Jillian Lauren has written an excellent “Modern Love” column for the New York Times: “Finding Marriage Without Losing a Self.” Jillian’s story is a unique one, she lived in Borneo as a member of a royal…
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Rick and Jolie Have a Chat
“Music is like acupuncture–the exact same treatment, the exact same songs, even the exact same recording will move people, even the same people at different times, in very different ways.” Jolie Holland and Rick Moody are having a conversation about…
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Sometimes Still
In three different rooms on two coasts, artist Darren Almond is practicing visual alchemy. One thing he does is take long exposures on full moons in ridiculously remote locations. Another thing he does is capture time itself. The still above…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #6: Shanna Mahin
I live two hours and a lifetime away from Los Angeles. I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about that. My mother’s an actress, I told the kids on the playground, or my father is a producer, both marginally true…
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I Was the Jukebox
Sandra Beasley’s crisp images and multiplicities galore construct an enlivened world for her reader, bringing what Gregory Orr calls, “authority of imagination…” Each poem is an experiment that recreates from the codex of language a powerful brand of imagination.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #14: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Jeska Dzwigalski
This interview with Jessica (Jeska) Dzwigalski was conducted at 11:00am PST via GMail chat on June 19.
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Morning Coffee
What a tiny cabin. A very important discussion on birds and their terrorizing habits. Massimo Vitali takes epic beach photographs. I have been wondering for a while where my fins went. Ending close to where we began, is this the…
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Rumpus Interview with Yorgos Lanthimos, Director of Dogtooth
“I don’t go to the cinema to hear these clichés about life—something you say to someone so that they can move on.”
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Books For The Summer Travel Itch
Now that it’s summertime, one in three people who shop at my bookstore are looking for travel guides, phrase books, travelogues or history books about some enticing destination. Yesterday a woman bought a Russian phrase book. I told her that…
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The Candidate In Bloom
A short story from Doug Dorst’s forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru, our Rumpus Book Club pick for July.
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The Self-Interview
Gina Frangello has a great “self-interview” over at TNB. And that’s not just because she gives our editor some serious love. The whole self-interview series is actually fantastic. Check out Rumpus hero Steve Almond’s self-interview along with Antonya Nelson, Billy…