The Rumpus Interview with Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel
Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel, the co-editors of Recommended Reading, discuss the ins and outs of editing an ambitious literary project.
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Indian River
In Florida there is an Indian River that flows through a swamp in the northern half of the state. It behaves nothing like a river at all—instead it commingles with…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #167
MY MICROWAVE ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my microwave.
Django Take #1: Good is the Enemy of Great
Look, we’re going to have to make a decision about Quentin Tarantino.
Django Take #2: We Have Arrived
L.S.B. That’s what my crew called themselves. Light Skinned Bitches. I refused to say it. The light-skinned part.
Django Take #3: (Re)chained
Django is not a movie with “villains.” Instead, the movie itself is villainous.
Django Take #4: Substance Amidst Spectacle
There is an unpleasant moment about halfway through Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained.
Django Take #5: Paving the Road to Hell
The problem with Tarantino’s Django Unchained is that it’s a very good movie. Wildly entertaining, expertly made, and very fun to watch. I loved almost every second of the watching…
Swinging Modern Sounds #39: Interview within an Interview
In this piece, we are not at any time meant to use the word greatness to refer to a band from Boston, Big Dipper, best known during the late eighties, for the three fine studio albums, the last of which, Slam, was released on Epic Records in 1990.
Sunday Rumpus Fiction: My Parasite
First, they did things the usual way. Rita and Lila met other conjoined twins at the conventions and dated them rigorously...
Saturday Rumpus Interview: Dana Johnson
It’s true that sometimes you can learn more about people from reading their fiction than their non-fiction.