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Women in Clothes, the sexism of Haruki Murakami, and poems about Gertrude Stein and desire.
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Detroit New Hollywood Vegas: Notes from an Extra
Juliette Lewis will decide to stage dive onto just me. Later, Drew Barrymore will make Alia Shawkat cry in front of a hundred extras. Later, Juno will face-plant. Hard.
Sound & Vision: Monte Pittman
Musician Monte Pittman, who collaborates with Madonna, talks with Allyson McCabe about guitar, his childhood in Texas, and passing on what he's learned to others.
Why I Chose Erika Meitner’s Copia for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Camille Dungy co-opts one of the many forms Erika Meitner uses in her new book Copia to tell us why she chose it for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
The Rumpus Interview with Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Jane Rosenberg LaForge discusses her new book An Unsuitable Princess, being a New York writer from L.A., and how women get short shrift in fairy tales.
Albums of Our Lives: Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads’ Rock Immortal
The driving force of the album is the character Dory Tourette, part invented alter ego, part self-mythologized caricature of frontman Dory Ben-Shalom...
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Steve Almond
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Steve Almond about his new book, Against Football, One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, the complicity of fans in the violence of the NFL, the sports media's role in the discussion (or lack of one) and the difficulty of leaving a sport you love.
The Rumpus Interview with M.E. Thomas
M.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, discusses writing a memoir, being a lawyer and a Mormon, the unreliability of memory—and, of course, being a high-functioning sociopath.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
David Bowie, Sisyphus, the Filipino diaspora, and Canada's most prestigious anthology of poetry.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #251
A FREE TEDDY BEAR PARTY ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a free teddy bear party.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Murakami's depiction of the murdered female sex object at the center of his new novel is not only sexist and irresponsible. It's also lazy writing.