Mistress
Mistress, the second in a series of short movies based on the novel Happy Baby, directed by Stephen Elliott. These shorts are explorations of characters that appear in the book but these scenes are not...
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My Little Brother Ruined My Life
“Are you a masochist?” It’s the first thing Bosco asks me. He’s fourteen years old now, almost my height, 5′ 8″, creamy white skin, and a small, German nose from my stepmother’s side of the family....
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An Oral History of Myself #14: Judy
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s...
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An Oral History of Myself #13: Mato
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s...
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The Great Film Festival Swindle
“If you’re in the con game and you don’t know who the mark is… you’re the mark.” —David Mamet“Never pay an entry fee. If they won’t give you a waiver they aren’t interested in the film.” —Major film...
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After Adderall, The Movie
What’s it like when James Franco makes a movie about your life? The Rumpus is excited to share the trailer for After Adderall, the new movie from Rumpus Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Stephen Elliott.The...
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Dear McSweeney’s: Two Letters from Stephen Elliott
Below we’ve reprinted two letters written by Rumpus Founder and Editor-in-Chief Stephen Elliott. The first appeared in McSweeney’s Issue 12, published in November 2003, and the second appeared on...
View ArticleHappy Baby, Now Available for Rental or Purchase!
Over two years ago we decided to make the first Rumpus produced movie out of my novel Happy Baby. Today, Happy Baby is finally available for rent or purchase on Vimeo!It was Dave Eggers’s fault. He had...
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An Oral History of Myself #15: Neil Elliott
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s...
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Mistress, the second in a series of short movies based on the novel Happy Baby, directed by Stephen Elliott. These shorts are explorations of characters that appear in the book but these scenes are not...
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Bombing the Bookclub
We had a number of people quit The Rumpus Book Club today because I wrote in a Daily Rumpus email that Israel should stop bombing Gaza. One person wrote that I was “ignorant of the history.” But I’m...
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
On this weekend in 1652, a law was passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies. Turns out that particular law didn’t cause much of a stir.Unfortunately, some of today’s legislation intended...
View ArticleThe Saddest Story I’ve Ever Read
I was heading home from my girlfriend’s house and it was taking a while. She lived well south of San Francisco and it was a weekend so the trains weren’t running. Instead you had to go to the station...
View ArticleThe Daily Rumpus, The Early Years
I started writing The Daily Rumpus email December 8, 2008, over a month before the actual launch of The Rumpus website (which happened January 20, 2009 while Obama was being inaugurated, as if a sneak...
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Songs Inspired by and Played for Actors on the Set of the Motion Picture...
1. My Adidas – Run DMC: The kids are ten years old, smoking in a park. The Asian child says to young Theo, Mrs. Smith is fucking hot, I’m going to fuck her. Theo says, How are you going to do that,...
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The Rumpus Interview With Michelle Orange
We sat on my bed, our backs against the wall, talking about her essay collection, This Is Running For Your Life.1. Setting Up The Interview, The Part About UsThe Rumpus: So… um… like what I’ll do is...
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Mistress, the second in a series of short movies based on the novel Happy Baby, directed by Stephen Elliott. These shorts are explorations of characters that appear in the book but these scenes are not...
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Sundance So Far
The World According To Dick Cheney is a very good, maybe great documentary. It isn’t The Fog Of War, but it has an element of that. And it isn’t Tyson, but it has an element of that too. If you walk...
View ArticleThe Problem with the Problem with Memoir
I got an email from a friend yesterday asking me if I’d seen this article on Gawker, Journalism Is Not Narcissism, by Hamilton Nolan. I hadn’t but I was aware of the argument. It’s an easy one to make,...
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Whoops, I hired Isaac
This is The Daily Rumpus email from three years ago today when I announced to the world The Rumpus had its first employee.The Daily Rumpus 6-15-09, Whoops, I hired IsaacHi! So today is kind of a big...
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