5 Broken Cameras: We Know How to Live
Many, many people tell Emad to quit filming. It’s the central premise and organizing structure of the documentary. One by one, his cameras are destroyed by bullets.
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Losing the Lusty
The women who danced at the Lusty Lady Theatre were pierced and collared and well-read. When they weren’t breathing fire or taking writing classes, they stripped.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #201
BREAKING BAD ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Breaking Bad.
Under the Table
The headaches, my difficulty focusing, my specimen-daze, that floating island, my spastic, nervous heart—which are side effects from drinking, and which were inevitable?
The Rumpus Interview with Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin talks about her new story collection, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, why she never says "ohhh" at poetry readings, and how desire and dread like to sleep in the same bed.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Abby Geni
"A friend of mine at Iowa once compared the program to electroshock therapy—it’s good for you, it reorganizes your thinking, and you’d never want to do it again." Welcome to the strange and fascinating world of Rumpus Book Club author, Abby Geni.
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Kelly Luce
If it weren’t such a goddamn cliché, I’d write something snappy like: “Kelly Luce is attempting to reinvigorate magical realism by launching a full-scale invasion of Murakami’s homeland.”
Albums of Our Lives: Dan Zanes’ Rocket Ship Beach
Our music collection was unassailable until I became pregnant with my first daughter.
Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Four
Because a literary magazine definitely needs a Fantasy Football series.
Readers Report: My Summer’s End
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “My Summer's End.”
Reelings #7: Blue Jasmine
Why is Woody Allen choosing to make a movie about this particular character? Is it to support a modern fable of our economic fall from grace? Or is there something more insidious at play?