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June 2012
286 posts
Love, InshAllah, edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Love, InshAllah, a new collection of essays about romance, love, and sex by Muslim American women, proves that love and faith can live in the same house.
New Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress has announced that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey. She is the first Southerner to hold the title since the original laureate, Robert Penn Warren,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yesterday’s news, today! Sci-fi writers remember Ray Bradbury. Big Picture has all the Transit of Venus pictures you could hope for. 1950s China imagines today. Science means getting to look…
Bodies in Bikinis: Are You Buying It?
As we watched the stick, scantily clad models parade onscreen for public consumption, my daughter turned to me, her face tight with disgust, and asked, “Why would women do that?”
Where Things Stand
After the VIDA counts in 2010 and 2011, as well as Jennifer Weiner’s count she released on her blog in January 2012, I wanted to see where things stood for…
Paying to Play: Interview with a John
To use a tennis analogy, I played all four corners in an attempt to interview clients. I hit up escort friends of mine with long-terms regulars, old clients who were articulate and thoughtful and guys I’d never met who had contacted me with sex work-related questions.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carmen Giménez Smith
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Carmen Giménez Smith about her poetry collection Goodbye, Flicker.
“When I Get Fired”
One of our favorite Tumblrs #realtalk from your editor–the brainchild of former GOOD editor Anne Friedman–posts one final medley: When I get fired. Check out our recent interview with Friedman for…
RADAR SUPERSTAR (Tonight!)
Join RADAR Productions in celebration of their ninth birthday! Readings by Ariana Reines, Justin Torres, Ellery Washington, and Zackary Drucke. The San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium at 6pm. Tonight!
Craft and Voice
“Cheryl Strayed uses her voice to emotionally connect with her readers, to use craft towards that end and not in spite of it. Which is all just to say that…
Turning Points: Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris
Marlon Brando was the greatest film actor of the 20th century, and a failure.