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Brian Gresko
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Brian Gresko is a writer and illustrator based in Brooklyn. Gresko co-runs Pete's Reading Series, Brooklyn's longest running literary venue, and is a co-founding member of Writing Co-Lab, a teaching cooperative. You can find out more at https://www.briangresko.com/.
The Category of Pretend: A Conversation with Makenna Goodman and Brian Gresko
Who am I and where do I go from here?
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #169: Saskia Vogel
“Understanding that you can have what you desire can be healing and transformative.”
Biblical Rebels and Romantics in The First Love Story
Adam and Eve are the Bible's most infamous couple: Bonnie and Clyde, year zero.
Against Silencing: Why All Writers—Even White Men—Should Discuss Gender
What does it mean for men to talk about being men?
Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold
Brian Gresko reviews Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold today in Rumpus Books.
Bowie by Simon Critchley
Bowie was the being who permitted a powerful emotional connection and freed them to become some other kind of self, something freer, more queer, more honest, more open, and more exciting.
Orphans by Ben Tanzer
Brian Gresko reviews Ben Tanzer's ORPHANS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
Double Feature by Owen King
Owen King does an amazing thing in his debut novel Double Feature by making the stakes to these questions matter to his characters in a fundamental, identity-forming way; he clears the air of stuffy academic arguments or stoner philosophizing in order to ask why does storytelling matter? No small task, this.
“Stupid Children,” by Lenore Zion
Reminiscent of a protagonist in an early Haruki Murakami novel, Jane is a passive agitator, an active observer.
“Love Is a Canoe,” by Ben Schrank
“Love and marriage,” says the song, “go together like a horse and carriage.” Or do they? In his latest novel, Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank casts a critical eye…
“The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson,” by Bryan Furuness
I went to Catholic school, damn it. They guilted me good and thick. In junior high, the young priest who led the boys’ sex ed talk referred to masturbation as…