The Daily Rumpus email from August 25, 2010

I had all these ideas. Most of them were metaphors about difference between touching someone’s leg and their stomach. There are lines we’re not supposed to cross but it turns out our lines are different, and it turns out it doesn’t matter if our vocabularies don’t match and the meaning of our actions isn’t the same. It’s like having a relationship with a phantom. …more

Then she asked if it was strange that we were doing all these photo shoots as an excuse to sleep together because she was in a monogamous relationship.

Yes, I said, that part is strange. …more

The Daily Rumpus is an email Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes and sends out anywhere from two to five times a week. Most of them are not posted online, but subscribing is free. Just send an email here. This is an excerpt from the one he sent out this morning:

I was reading about the BEA and the launch of Bay Citizen and I thought I should say something about publishing and then thought I didn’t have much to say. But then I thought that books, like so much else, are moving toward community. …more