So if you’re going to the AWP conference in Chicago next February-March, you should keep that Thursday evening free so you can come hang with The Rumpus as we host a reading to benefit 826 Chicago. Details are still being hammered out, but scheduled to appear are Sommer Browning, Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed and yours truly. I’ll try not to stink up the joint too badly.
I have no way to segue into this: a brief history of the grades of maple syrup.
Why science majors change their minds. Count me as one of these people–a chemistry major undone my by inability to integrate an equation. I’m not sorry it happened.
Who cares if eyewitness testimony is incredibly untrustworthy? Not the Supreme Court, by all accounts.
The Economist argues that subsidizing artistic folk is a good thing for society. Well, duh.
When is an anti-bullying law not really an anti-bullying law? When it includes a hole big enough to drive a Star Destroyer through it.