I was fourteen when Strange Little Girls was released and I was fifteen when my parents decided to separate. …more

We are beginning a new series called “The Last City I Loved.” Please send submissions to marie AT therumpus.net.

Chloe Caldwell’s inaugural piece is after the jump: …more

When I was G-chatting with a friend a year and a half ago, he put a link into the little white box. “Please tell me you read this,” he said. The link was to Sugar’s column “The Baby Bird.” I hadn’t read it. So I read it—and I reacted. …more

I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live above.

We had dinner a few months ago, where I picked her brain about the writing life, and we both overate pasta. It struck me that she is a wonderful and interesting person, so I asked her a few more questions. …more

I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. …more

I am looking at the things on my Ikea desk surrounding my 2007 Dell Computer that I am typing on. What I see from left to right: …more