Nick Rombes
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Two Dollar Radio Is Moving Into Film!
The Columbus based indie publisher, Two Dollar Radio is expanding to the big screen! One of the first titles to be released from Two Dollar Radio Moving Pictures is The Removals, written by Rumpus contributor Nicholas Rombes and directed by…
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You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
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PANEL BUSTING: The Census
At Oxford American, Rumpus columnist Nick Rombes breaks into the official US census for 1860, chronicling his reaction to the text and the traces left behind by past readers. “Curled delicately, its oil having spread out in a bloom across…
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Emily, Eyes Shut
To look inward, at the smallest of things—this is what novels do. And now microscopes.
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“The Removals”
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes has the first installment of a three-part story up at Berfrois. “They took you to the first house, and then, later, to the second. By the time they had removed you to the third house you…
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The Supreme Court School of PoMo Theory
“All literature is interactive,” [Scalia] writes, countering those who find special danger in violent video games because of their interactivity.
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Rombes Rocks Berfrois
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes served as today’s guest editor for London-based online magazine Berfrois. Rombes curated an array of excellent pieces, including Rumpus editor Isaac Fitzgerald’s “In Love in San Francisco,” Peggy Nelson’s “Short Attention Span Theater,” and two poems by…
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Empire
There are so many details in the picture, but which ones are important? Neither of them are looking directly at each other.
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Total War: A Film Reminiscence
In those days, the only way to see David Lynch’s early, short films was to start or join a film club, pool resources, and rent them from some place like Facets in Chicago.
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Rombes’ Blogs for Filmmaker Magazine
Rumpus columnist Nick Rombes’ shot-by-shot breakdown of Blue Velvet has officially begun. The breakdown is happening in a trifecta of weekly blog posts for Filmmaker Magazine, 47-second increments of the film detailed in cinematic analysis. Scott Macaulay introduces the project,…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #7: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Pete Schwartz
Pete Schwartz lives in Downington, Pennsylvania. He works for IKON Office Solutions. This interview was conducted via gmail chat at 2:00 EST on June 10.