Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to Saturday everyone.Warning: following this link might make you question humanity for the rest of the day. Hint–it involves Twilight and a dildo. Via Slog the Stranger. More Edward Cullen...
View ArticleAttention Spans are Not the Problem
A few weeks ago, I argued that the Internet age was uniquely well suited to selling short story collections. A few commenters did not agree with what seemed to be implicit in my argument: the idea that...
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The Rumpus Interview with Caitlin Horrocks
“I like to show my class a Top Chef episode where the contestants are supposed to make something interesting out of potatoes, like sweet potato ice cream. I try to talk about vampires that way: there’s...
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A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction Of William Gay
The great Southern novelist and story writer William Gay died at his home in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23rd of this year, at the age of 70. An intensely private man who valued his reclusion and...
View ArticleFanfiction Gathers Force
Ever since Fifty Shades of Grey, originally written with characters from Twilight as its protagonists, struck gold, the mainstream publishing world has had to take a closer look at fanfiction.In the...
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Little Minnie at the Movies
How do you write about a film that is getting universal acclaim when you’re mourning the potential of a movie that could have been?The Diary of a Teenage Girl places me in this curious conundrum. The...
View ArticleThe Comparative Value of Books and their Adaptations
As adapting book series for lucrative movie deals becomes an all-too-common sight these days, it might be easy to simply fall back on the bookworm’s argument that the books are better than their film...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer
MORE LIKE SUMMER BREAKUPWaking up too hot on humid mornings, I’d climb out onto the roof and watch the empty campus, the silent smooth paths, the gray-blue New England slate beautiful for no one. The...
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Damned and Damaged Vessels
The penultimate scene of 2002 fantasy horror flick Queen of the Damned features a team of vampires feasting on the blood of mythological first vampire, Queen Akasha. Her progeny—and that’s what they...
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A Language in Constant Rebellion: Talking with Aura Xilonen
Aura Xilonen, a native Mexican and current film student, wrote the novel Gringo Champion (Europa Editions) at only nineteen years old. It soon won Mexico’s Mauricio Achar/Random House Award, given to...
View ArticleTitanic Turns Twenty in a World That Won’t Talk About It
After twenty years and eleven Oscars and eleventy billion dollars, we still don’t really talk about Titanic. We’re a generation that happily blogs and Tumblrs and inspo-boards across the messy, dorky...
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Blind Hunger, Black Bodies, and Radiohead’s In Rainbows
I’ve been trying to confront something for a while now; this is one of what I imagine will be a series of attempts to do so over a lifetime. In my dim parochial middle school years, a musical shift...
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