Art
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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 possible to put yourself up against those tests, or else…
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“They like my music because I rock.”
Don’t have anything going on at work today? Wesley Willis’s Joy Rides, a “77-minute 2008 film about the schizophrenic cult musician,” is being shown in its entirety over at Pitchfork. The movie not only includes Willis’s music, but also heaps…
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Besuboru Bromides
from the collection of John Gall John Gall is the art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He’s also the man behind the Nabokov Collection and the blog Spine Out. (Read two interviews with him: 1, 2.) I want to…
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The Letters Of Van Gogh Restored And Revisited
“In its capaciousness, the book also reminds us of a fundamental truth about Van Gogh: his ambition as a painter depended on words to give it focus and direction. We see this most obviously in the correspondence with Theo. “Writing…
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Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint
In a time of twitter novels and short stories laid out a 140 characters at a time, Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, is going in a different direction. Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint is, as Rombes…
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Henry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy
Thinking back on his first stay in Hollywood, Miller often reminisced about the Green House, “where I made so many watercolors, sold them for a song or for an umbrella I had no use for, but where I also made…
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Eskimo Grasshoppers: French Children’s Books of the 30s and 40s
1948, Apoutsiak, written and illustrated by Paul Emile Victor
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/30-12/6
This week in San Francisco: three bicyclists make a pit stop on their 12,000 mile journey, thus taking care of your exercise quotient for the year. Also, the International Body Music Festival, the Lower Haight Holiday Art Walk, and two…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/30 – 12/6
This week in New York Cate Blanchett acts in A Streetcar Named Desire, John Ashbery and Paul Auster read, Mike Daisey monologizes, an n+1 panel discusses feminism and love, Sherman Alexie talks with Rick Moody, Samuel Beckett’s Letters get talked…
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The Rumpus Interview with Cyberpunk Richard Kadrey
The last time I saw you, in 2000, we were in a hotel room in Pittsburgh; one of us was naked and there was a beautiful, heavily tattooed girl handcuffed to the sink…