Rumpus Originals
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GENERATION GAP #7: Mario Tama’s New Orleans
Now that It is over—now that the circus has come and gone, its glaring lights, its grips and its roadies; now that the visiting dignitaries have made their dignified departures and the newspapers have returned to publishing news
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Happy Holidays: Electric Santa
A warm “Happy Holidays!” from all of us here at The Rumpus. Please accept Rumpus artist Ian Huebert’s fantastic art (which you can purchase here) as our humble gift to you, our beloved Rumpus readers:
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Happy Holidays: The Pensive Yeti
It is our pleasure to present Rob Kimmel’s “The Pensive Yeti.” Enjoy:
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Christmas in Beirut
My family has always had a love/hate relationship with Christmas. My sisters love it, I hate it.
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The Rumpus Interview with Luc Sante
Luc Sante is perhaps best known for his sprawling, meticulously researched nonfiction book Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, about subterranean life among the dregs in 19th century Manhattan.
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10/40/70 #30: Machine Gun McCain
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 Machine Gun McCain, directed by Giuliano Montaldo (1969):
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Hammer Is the Prayer of the Poor and the Dying
For [Christian] Wiman, form is the fire his feet are held to. It’s the syntactic embers that burn, the linguistic flames that flare. At no point does Wiman let the reader forget he is reading poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Skloot
Bestselling author Rebecca Skloot is everywhere these days. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, was over ten years in the making and was recently dubbed a Notable Book of 2010 by The New York Times.