The Forgotten Movie Screens of Broward County
University Cinema 4 This four-screen theater, in a small strip shopping center at the corner of Pines Boulevard and University Drive, was where Mom and Dad took us to see…
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“Inch of ocean, pinch of face”
Like the razor-edged minimalism of Robert Creeley, the rich ontology of these poems, where the content and form eloquently match, communicates carefully into the reader’s memory.
The Rumpus Interview with Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, the Armenian-Canadian director best known for The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies, and Ararat, is back with a new film out in theaters, titled Adoration.
Sexual Healing?
Women are nasty. They piss, and fart, and masturbate. They clean toilet seats with their vaginas and pull out tampons with barbeque tongs.
The Rumpus Interview with Kirby Dick
Kirby Dick’s new film, four years in the making, seeks to expose the secret, and sometimes not-so-secret, double lives of closeted gay politicians, whose numbers are higher than you might…
Shiny, Decadent, and Seedy: A One-Question Interview with Hally McGehean
As a teenager, Hally McGehean was the most glamorous person I knew. When I was seventeen I was in love with her.
The Shorty Q & A with Princess Superstar
The hip-hop mash-up royalty rapper Princess Superstar has always been unpredictable. As a DJ and recording artist she’s made a career of irreverent lyrics that are steeped in sex and…
The Best Music is Made of Subtraction
Like the Jazz, Blues, and R&B music Brown references, these poems are born of heartbreak, explorations of love and violence, connections and disconnections, the vast complications of body and heart.
What Is Found
In Patrick Somerville’s novel, an expectant father must decide what kind of man he wants to be.
The Rumpus Interview with James Toback
James Toback started his career in 1978 with a movie called Fingers, starring Harvey Keitel, about a gangster who succeeds in following his more spiritual, delicate side and becomes a…
The Great American Novel in Miniature
Lurking beneath the dazzling political and pop-culture fireworks of Benjamin Taylor’s second novel, The Book of Getting Even, is a vivid tale of American displacement and discovery that could be…