The Tree of Life, in Review
The New York Review of Books’ look into Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life compares it to the prose of William James, discussing the film’s attempt at “embodying what cannot actually be embodied,” via...
View ArticlePaper Trumpets #13: Land of Plenty
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on this collage:That turkey looks damn good but it was kind of hard to find. Wanting to find a good turkey image for this special Thanksgiving edition collage, it...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel’s debut collection, Upright Beasts, has been highly anticipated and greatly praised, and for good reason: it’s a dark, dreamy spiral into a world mostly like ours, but a few degrees off,...
View ArticleEvery Woman Is a Nation unto Herself: A Conversation with Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray lives and writes with a brio you might associate with another era: one in which elections alone do not shake some segment of the populace into an awareness of moral issues and gallows...
View ArticleWords as Events: A Conversation with Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood’s cinematic anti-story and artwork out from Two Dollar Radio binds the genres of novel, screenplay, and poetry in a collage of horror and humming imagery. His work hangs in the balance of...
View ArticleLanguage Is Sensational: A Conversation with Eileen G’Sell
It was, my friend, a good story. Very, very, very romantic. Several people died. It was black and white, and then it was color. A man got sad, and then he got angry. We all got laid, agreed it was fun....
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Maylis de Kerangal
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Maylis de Kerangal about her new novel, The Cook (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2019), the desire to describe human beings “in the making,” and how she approaches...
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