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  • Rumpus Original

Songs of Our Lives: “Off to War”

  • Kelly Fig Smith
  • July 26, 2018
This is fault-line music, dangerous in an unassuming way.
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  • Rumpus Original

Boyz n the Hood, Chi-Raq, and America 2016

  • Argun Ulgen
  • July 14, 2016
And while the faces and nomenclature between these historically discrete agents of change differ, the one governing commonality remains the same: unfettered gun ownership and correlative violence play a pivotal role.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Colin Winnette

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 23, 2015
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Colin Winnette about his new novel Haints Stay, writing ambiguity, and playing against the expectations of genre.
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  • Visual Art

Paper Trumpets #19: What To Do In an Emergency

  • Kevin Sampsell
  • February 18, 2015
These three collages were inspired by a 1988 book called Reader's Digest Action Guide: What To Do in an Emergency.
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The Rumpus Review of Calipatria

  • Heather Quinn
  • May 30, 2014
At the heart of the short film Calipatria is an ever-present sense of malice that hangs over the landscape and surrounds this young woman, on her own in this ominous desert town.
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Hollywood Pilgrims

  • Teow Lim Goh
  • August 28, 2013
The landscape stood out, but I also had an uneasy sense of déjà vu, as if the image had already been imprinted in my memory. I knew that the valley was the setting for John Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach, the film that gave John Wayne his breakout role.
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Leone’s Dollars Trilogy Available Free on Hulu

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • November 5, 2009
Through the end of November, Hulu is hosting Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy for free viewing: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and — the greatest, obviously —…
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