An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #5
Fred White, Age 86 Mission, Kansas “She was quite a doll and I didn’t want anybody else.” My wife, Helen, and I have been married sixty-five years. I met her…
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you are a little bit happier than i am
Reading these poems makes me want to write and this is a book that I will probably come back to often when I feel stuck or uninspired. The poems in…
Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #2: Beware the Gonzo
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS…AND DRAW Zoe Kravitz, it seems, has it easy. With musician Lenny Kravitz (Remember his “Flowers for Zoe”?) and actress Lisa Bonet for…
The Last Book I Loved: Wuthering Heights
What is wrong with Emily Brontë? I want to make a house in her brain. I'm scared! I can't tell you too much, because my sister is reading the book now and I don't want to spoil anything.
The Rumpus Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop
According to Banksy, his first film, made with footage shot by its subject, Thierry Guetta, is about “how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.”
Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #1: Meskada
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS… AND DRAW Meskada, a murder mystery set in a rural town reeling from depression, premiered Thursday night on day two of the…
Paradox and Self-Annihilation in Hot Tub Time Machine
After watching Hot Tub Time Machine, a raunchy, slightly funnier-than-average buddy comedy set against the backdrop of 80’s nostalgia, I left the theater with the peculiar feeling I always get…
The Dollhouse Within
What does it mean to be “in the house,” to be held in place in an age of motion, of fleeting relationships, realities, and contexts?
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #33: Orgasm-Friendly Zone
Yes, you are obliged to tell the men you’re sleeping with regularly that you’re not sleeping with them exclusively. There are no exceptions to this rule.
The Rumpus Interview with David Goodwillie and Teddy Wayne
Two debut novels addressing – amongst other topics ripped from the Zeitgeist – the symbiotic relationship between terrorism and the media, appear this month in bookstores:
Bobcat Country
Page after page, Bobcat Country stirs both the counter-intuitively satisfying “Should I be reading this?” queasiness of the Confessional poetry of Berryman, Sexton, and Snodgrass, and the unsettlingly provocative “Is…
10/40/70 #4: Cleo from 5 to 7
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…