Arthur Jones will Illustrate Your One-Sentence Story
This summer, writer, illustrator and animator Arthur Jones will illustrate your one-sentence story with one Post-It Note. Jones, who has taken his Post-It Note Series on a cross-country tour, and whose...
View ArticleAnimatio Absurdus: The Rumpus Interview with Arthur Jones
Gored by a banana on a barroom floor, a man lies supine as a nun slaps a midget, a down-and-out Santa drinks hard and a sullied beauty queen totes a severed head. These are not characters in a Jean...
View ArticleDavid Rakoff, 1964 – 2012
We’re saddened by the news that David Rakoff died today at 47.The Awl has a tribute to the “writer, aesthete, genius, New York devotee… exceptional reporter and observer, performer, director and...
View ArticleLove, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
On May 10, 2012, This American Life hosted a live show that was simultaneously broadcast into a selection of movie theaters. The theme, “Invisible Made Visible,” underscored the radio program’s...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Alexander Chee
In Alexander Chee’s latest novel The Queen of the Night, we meet Lilliet Berne, a woman of unknown origin who has risen to soprano stardom in 19th century Paris. One night, at a ball at the Luxembourg...
View ArticleYou Can’t Be a Snob with Bad Teeth: Talking with David Sedaris
Reading David Sedaris’s Theft By Finding is like reading the liner notes for all your favorite essays. A collection of diary entries, written from 1977 to 2002, the book begins with Sedaris hitchhiking...
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