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Pastries, Cowboy Music / That Kind of Shit
Reading, and re-reading these poems, you’ll find lines which are so outrageous, hilarious, and true that they get lodged in your head, like songs; and, you’ll find yourself quoting the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in famous dead people’s handwriting: Isaac Newton’s annotates himself. Africa is very large. Designing robots to fail. Hey, watch this bridge get taken apart. On the ramifications of turtle…
The Rumpus Interview with Maile Meloy
“Short stories are hard because you have to start over every time, but they're what I did first. I like living in a novel, as a writer and as a reader, but sometimes you can't see your way out.”
The Gray Lady Likes Ghosts
The New York Times reviews our good friend Matthew Zapruder’s most recent poetry collection, Come On All You Ghosts.
Adjective Overdoses
“For some people, being able to use all these words is rather like being faced with a chocolate box with multiple layers; the temptation to overindulge is just too great.”…
FUNNY WOMEN #35: A Southern Mad Lib
Insert your own words in the spaces below to make a wacky story!
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On October 27 as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space, Award-winning actresses Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under) and Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens) lead an illustrious cast performing…
Notable New York, This Week 10/19 – 10/24
This week in New York Judah Friedlander does Karate, Ian Frazier joins the FDG Reading Series, The Word Made Flesh celebrates in Brooklyn, James Franco takes a stab at writing,…
TDR Tattoo
A couple of weeks ago we told you about Two Dollar Radio’s offer of a free lifetime subscription to anyone who would tattoo the TDR logo onto their body. Well…