Get out of the way grandpa spider! Phone-call cartography is a pretty neat way to think about things. Pigeons understand that you hate them (personally). Sometimes we all want to…
Kris Kristofferson cited him as a major influence. Elvis Presley often sang a song of his, “An American Trilogy,” to end his shows. To date, Mickey Newbury is the only…
This week in New York, Sapphire reads from her new book, The Kid; Kick Assonance poetry reading; Tayari Jones reads from Silver Sparrow; The Center for Fiction reading of No…
If you’re anything like me, after you’ve finished reading an article, you head straight for the comments section to see what your fellow human beings have to say. I recently…
“I had gone through and thought about the number of books you could conceivably read in a year, for example. And then if you extrapolate it out over your lifetime,…
I stumbled across this project via A Public Space today called Not Working, a project intended to capture America during The Great Recession in the same way Studs Terkel did…
“What the independent provides is personal contact and the community connection, and that is a cultural legacy that is important to maintain and inspire as our – inspire our future.”…
This past Monday, we linked to a piece in Good by friend of The Rumpus Mac McClelland that detailed her struggle with PTSD and her use of violent sex to…