The Surface of Things: The Rumpus Long Interview with Tao Lin
The characters in Tao Lin's work drink smoothies, use g-chat and steal, all with equal gravity, or lack thereof.
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John Dies at the End
An expanded on-line novel aimed at the teenage-slacker demo offers one too many penis jokes and pop-culture shout outs.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #3
GLENN BECK ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Glenn Beck.
Magic Gardens: The Rumpus Interview With Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas’ saucy new memoir Magic Gardens is about stripping in Portland, Oregon during the 90’s when the “stripping as performance art” trend was taking hold and pro-porn feminism…
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Let’s face it: Even when you’re breaking up with a Dungeon Master who used to call you his “Faerie Dragon,” you still know you’re breaking up.
Sam J. Miller’s 25-Word Movie Reviews #1
Let the Right One In (the movie) (Tomas Alfredson, 2008) Somehow makes vampires feel fresh. Fascinating aesthetic: colorless cinematography, minimal dialogue, affectless acting. Touching, scary, tender. An astonishing little girl.…
Kronos Quartet: The Rumpus Interview with David Harrington
I think, like it or not, that everything we do as citizens, as human beings, is a statement about how we want the world to be.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #23
It’s the good ones who smart, and the dumb ones who play it safe.
Books, Movies, Magic: The Rediscovered Genius of the Automaton
I recently read “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” a sort of hybrid graphic-young adult novel by Brian Selznik that tells a fictionalized story revolving around Georges Méliès, the frenchman who…
The Blurb #10: Managing Writers in the Workplace – A Guide for Employers
Writers are most inspired when they have no time to write, thus employment keeps them writing, and suppresses maladaptive behaviors most of us are happy to read about but don’t want to ever actually see.
Soul Pas de Deux
The music always gets me, right where I’m sure Bach meant it to, somewhere between my stomach and my heart.
Now You See It…
The Art of Disappearing has been compared to The Time Traveler’s Wife, but Ivy Pochoda’s prose is lusher, her characters more melancholy, her style more mysterious.