Rumpus Original Fiction: New Build
“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
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Posts Tagged: House
What Is Being Charted Here?: Talking with Jennifer S. Cheng
Poet and essayist Jennifer S. Cheng discusses her collection House A, working “in the dark,” and the idea of home.
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Ghostly Woman
I had never lived in a real haunted house. I didn’t know what any of the rules were. Could her presence cause physical harm?
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Sunday Rumpus Fiction: Quietly the Flood
If anyone was old pals it was Leona and the house. Was she friends with a house?
...moreCan’t Escape “Show Me Love”
If you’ve been thinking that there’s a subtly pervasive ’90s house vibe running through today’s music, you might have Sten “Stonebridge” Hallström to thank for it. The man behind the remix of Robin S’s soul track “Show Me Love” helped define what it meant to create a club remix (not to mention what it now […]
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Bring It On Home
A house is just a set design, and sometimes we run lines with ghosts.
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The Unmade House
We never moved. We just faded out of the house. Let me clarify what I mean when I say “we”…
...moreThe Eyeball #39: Bros. Quay, Svankmajer, and McLaren
Last week for my Hugo House class on using experimental films as writing prompts we spent 88 glorious minutes with House, the 1977 Japanese haunted pajama party freak-out directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. This week we puzzled ourselves with three stop-motion animated shorts.
...moreThe Eyeball #38: HOUSE
Session four of my six-part class on using experimental films as writing prompts commenced last night at Richard Hugo House. In previous weeks we viewed films by Buñuel, Brakhage, and Anger, moving westward from Spain to Colorado to Los Angeles. This week we hopped across the Pacific to Japan, where we encountered Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House, […]
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