DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #51: No Mystery About Sperm
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Freedom Infograph
A very cool chart: “Voice and Reader Gratification in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom” by Paul Barrett. Disclaimer: Coolness levels may vary depending on whether you’ve read/are reading the book or not.…
Celebration and Bitterness, Comfort and Dread
Today, in Books, Andrea Scrima reviews Jessica Treadway’s latest collection, Please Come Back to Me. Treadway won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2009. Read the review.
Aaron Davidson: The Last Book I Loved, Best Music Writing 2007
I paid $2 for a bargain-bin copy of Best Music Writing 2007. The price tag still covers “s” and “i.” It’s guest edited by Robert Christgau. I’d pay two dollars…
Celebration and Bitterness, Comfort and Dread
In Please Come Back to Me, Jessica Treadway examines the ambiguities of the human heart, sometimes answering life’s dilemma’s too elegantly.
What’s in a Name? JCPenney and The Dunce Cap
A few weeks ago, a slim catalog from JCPenney arrived in our mailbox. It floated around the house for a few days. On its cover are printed these words: littleredbook…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
These crustaceans live inside of Jellyfish. What of it? Enviable Swedish architecture of the day. Sometimes I just want to read about hometown shark attacks. New Scientist explains to us…
Jack Stevenson: A Dirty Old Man in Action
Fortified with homemade iced Vietnamese coffee, Jack Stevenson describes his work as a film archaeologist in San Francisco, the former sex capital of the U.S.:
The Last Book I Loved: Sick City
In classic noir fashion, Sick City opens with a death. Jeffrey, a male prostitute junkie, goes to wake up his lover and sugar daddy (a retired Los Angeles cop with…