Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Review of Make Way for Tomorrow
A Depression-era drama about bankruptcy and aging and the quiet moral failures of the petit bourgeois, Make Way for Tomorrow is the anti-Avatar.
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10/40/70 #14: Blair Witch and House of Leaves
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 Blair Witch Project and compare it with the novel…
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Time Loops, Child Molesters, and Sparkly Tube Tops
McGlynn’s book follows an almost fairy-tale-type logic – the unknowing past-self of the narrator plays the part of the last wife of Bluebeard, searching out the hidden rooms, with the watching future-self unable to keep her from finding the closet…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerry DeCicca of The Black Swans
“I wish we were more popular so I could play in theaters and make albums with Daniel Lanois, but we’re lucky we get this much.”
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FUNNY WOMEN #28: So You Have Second-Hand Embarrassment Syndrome
First, do not fret, this is a very common affliction, affecting millions of people worldwide. Second Hand Embarrassment Syndrome (SHES) is defined as feeling other people’s embarrassment as acutely as your own. This makes reality television, specifically talent competitions, extremely hard…
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O Fallen Angel
The tale of a bipolar, Midwestern prostitute and her Catholic family feels all-too-familiar to our Midwest-born reviewer.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews John Brandon
The Rumpus Book Club talks with John Brandon about Citrus County, his second novel from McSweeney’s.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #42
ATLAS SHRUGGED ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Atlas Shrugged.
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The Rumpus Interview with Vendela Vida
“With every book you write you limit yourself a little bit because you can’t do the same thing again. I’ve written two novels about people in their 20s—with this one I wanted to write about a woman looking back on…