Columns
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Point of View and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Flexible First Person
We spend an enormous amount of our lives … thinking about other people, their motives, their desires and their opinions.
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Don’t Forget
Don’t forget to sign up for The Rumpus Book Club: One Rumpus, One Book, launched today and featuring Citrus County by John Brandon, forthcoming from McSweeney’s. Many readers have already joined!
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“I THINK I WANT TO EAT YOUR SMILE TONIGHT”
“Daniel Bailey is a genius. Daniel Bailey’s poems may or may not be genius and that is precisely the reason why Daniel Bailey is, in fact, a genius.” Joseph Goosey reviews Bailey’s The Drunk Sonnets.
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This is More than Poetry.
Grotesquery is the nature of the humor in The Black Automaton.… [Douglas] Kearney leads the reader through laughter at the unchangeable rottenness of life, rather than throwing a tearful pity party.
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10/40/70 #8: The Foreigner
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine The Foreigner, by Amos Poe.
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Abandoning the Mothership
We’ve all heard the stories about people getting fired from jobs because of overly revealing Facebook photos, or of couples breaking up by changing their Facebook “relationship status” before even talking to one another. Though Facebook is meant to exist…
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The Harvard Grifter
Adam Wheeler is a 23 year-old Harvard Senior “who was indicted Monday for falsifying information in his applications to Harvard and for several scholarships.” Wheeler has pleaded not guilty to “20 counts, including larceny (he received nearly $50,000 in scholarships…
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“Sharp, Perfectly Rendered Pieces”
“Emma Straub’s Fly-Over State is a lovely little slip of a book, small in scale—it weighs in at 77 pages—but not in depth.” Emily St. John Mandel reviews Fly-Over State.
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Paper Ashes
Bette Burgoyne is a Seattle-based artist whose recent works are made with only a white prismacolor pencil and black paper. I asked her to describe her methods for this post: