The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead
I try to…consider the writing process as seriously as I do entering a house with black smoke puffing from its eaves.
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Posts by: Ben Tanzer
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: There Will Be Blood
It is 1980, I am twelve years old, and there is so much blood.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: End of Story
The cool story would be how we went home that night, dropped everything, booked our trip, and were soon having a threesome…under the ocean spray that endlessly cascades over San Sebastian’s horseshoe beachfront. But that isn’t what happened.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Race Matters
You’re an enlightened, New World kind of dad–you don’t expect your son to be some macho athlete. If only he would run the dash…
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