Reading in the New Year
Rumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade.
Posts Tagged: kaui hart hemmings
Rumpus Flash Fiction: “Simoom,” by Anna North
When my father left and my mother went crazy and carved into every wooden surface of our house a name that wasn’t hers or his, I asked what she was doing. She made me get down the dictionary. “Simoom,” I read…
...moreShameless Self-Promotion
Self, in this case, being a member of The Rumpus, not me personally.
Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants, the blog How to Party With an Infant and our very own Bad Mommy Blog, is having her novel made into a movie by Alexander Payne and Fox Searchlight Pictures.
...moreBAD MOMMY BLOG: Six Reasons Why The Bad Mommy Will Never Be A Good Socialite
1. Saturday night party/silent auction for a school. Daniel Kim was there, looking around. My husband goes, “Hey, are you lost?”
2. One of the items up for bid was to be the headmaster for a day. In the program this was most unfortunately titled, “Head For a Day.” When this is presented to a table full of drunk people in a context where you’re supposed to be semi-refined and respectful, lewdness ensues.
...moreBAD MOMMY BLOG: Why Can’t Men Say, “Ow?”
“Ow. That hurts. I’m in pain.” These are a few things Andy (the husband) will never say. After a snowboarding mishap he blacked out, woke and noticed it hurt when his friend kept jabbing him in the stomach. He googled his symptoms and figured he was bleeding internally and he may have ruptured his spleen.
BAD MOMMY BLOG: Princesses, part II
I have a few more things to say about the princess posse. I didn’t say it all in one post because I have a short attention span and figure you do, too. The princesses aren’t that big a deal. Far worse things await: the Jonas Brothers, for instance, or teen idols with babies and/or meth addictions.
...moreBAD MOMMY BLOG: Happy Valentine’s Day—I Give You My Vagina
Within one minute of meeting my waxer I am on a bed, naked from the waist down and her hand is on my vagina. I’m trying to think of something to say, but all that comes to mind is: “So, have you seen any good ones lately?”
She runs over my little remark with remarks of her own: who she knows and who she waxes, and I don’t really like this.
Rumpus Original – The Best of NOT 2008
We asked for the best books people read this year NOT published in 2008. We did this because even writers rarely read more than a handful of books actually published that year. Usually the best books are recommended from people we trust, and that can take a while.
...moreThirteen Ways of Looking at a Vagina
Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants and The House of Thieves, explains the vagina thing to her four year old daughter:
In grade school I used to love those jokes where a kid would learn the wrong names of sexual anatomy and then say things like, “I saw Daddy’s submarine going toward Mommy’s abyss (or whatever.
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