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Childhood Trauma Soap: “Maybe if you smelled good your parents would love you.” Speaking of parents, is respect for elders universal in primates? (My completely unscientific answer? Not in punk…
RECESSION SEX WORKERS #7: How To Be a Girl: Courtney Trouble’s Subversive Smut
Courtney Trouble’s no pedestrian pornographer. She’s a pale, femme, riot girl with squiggly tattoos and rocker bangs.
A Cold Business
The New York Times has caught clothing giant H & M (and, to a lesser extent, Wal-Mart) in the act of literally cutting and dumping unsold clothing instead of donating…
Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Amy Bloom’s characters are glorious, endearing wrecks—vain, horny, bullheaded, and brave. They resemble everyone we’ve ever known intimately.
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Columns #19: Call Me By Your Game
When I need a haircut, I go to a barbershop run by a pair of balding Italian brothers in Park Slope, Brooklyn. My hair is thin enough now that I’m…
If it’s too loud…
NPR has a terrific piece this week on the Loudness War — as mourned/explained by this YouTube video. As a drummer, hearing every part of the kit and every single…
In Praise of the Indie Bookseller
Poets & Writers has a new series, Inside Indie Bookstores, by Jeremiah Chamberlin, associate editor of Fiction Writers Review. Each month, according to Chamberlin, the series will feature an interview…