Blogs
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The Eyeball #37: Kenneth Anger
Are there some films you have to take drugs to enjoy? I asked this question toward the end of this week’s session of the class on experimental films I’m teaching at Richard Hugo House, after spending two hours with the…
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For All Your Thrills: Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
The Columbia Spectator talks to Timothy Donnelly about his new collection of poems, The Cloud Corporation, revealing his patience with the craft, propensity for pauses, and how he relishes the “quirky aspects of language.” The Chicago Tribune calls Adam Levin‘s…
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Dear Old Dad…
Today in Book Review, Regina Marler reviews Anthony De Sa’s new collection of stories, Barnacle Love. Read the review.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #31: Ben Roethlisberger and Flannery O’Connor
Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh quarterback disgraced last spring when a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexually assaulting her in a bar, is back on the field after serving a four-game suspension, and his Steelers are an impressive 5-1.
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Jeffrey Simpson: The Last Book I Loved, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The last book that I truly loved reading was John Vaillant’s book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. The story is set in the Russian taiga (boreal forest) village of Sobolonye near Vladivostok, Russia’s secretive Pacific port, an…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #26: The Cessation of Miracles
The city of brotherly love is always reinventing itself, coming up with varieties of eccentricity meant to distract from its diet of horrors, for example, a good baseball team.
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Notes from an Adam Levin Reading
Rumpus Book Club member Robert Pham attended an Adam Levin reading yesterday. Here he shares his notes on the event: “Ready to rock?” I overhear from behind me. “Rock!” Adam Levin drove up from Chicago for a 7 PM reading…
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Teleny and Camille
Today, in Book Review, Evan J. Peterson reviews Jon Macy’s latest graphic novel, Teleny and Camille, a new take on the Oscar Wilde story. Read the review.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #58
WHOEVER WROTE “FUCK YOU” IN THE DIRT ON MY CAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing whoever wrote “fuck you” in the dirt on my…
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Sara Young: The Last Book I Loved, Poop
I was recently given a book called Poop by Sam Sharpe. It is a small, handmade, self-published book with a series of visual puns that run through its pages, one of which involves some confusion between the words “luncheon” and “lynching.”
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The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters
Two funny women interviewed each other about their lives. They’re also sisters. They were raised like twins, best friends, by a hovering yet distracted Jewish mother and a drama-and-opera-prone psychiatrist father.
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FUNNY WOMEN #36: 25 Things You Didn’t Know About Adrien Grenier, EXPOSED
On July 1, 2010, Entourage star and eco-friendly cleaning product Adrian “Charisma” Grenier told Us Magazine “25 Things You Didn’t Know About Him,” a Proustian exercise designed to give readers a greater insight into the minds and hearts of their…