The Category of Pretend: A Conversation with Makenna Goodman and Brian Gresko
Who am I and where do I go from here?
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Posts by: Brian Gresko
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #169: Saskia Vogel
“Understanding that you can have what you desire can be healing and transformative.”
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Biblical Rebels and Romantics in The First Love Story
Adam and Eve are the Bible’s most infamous couple: Bonnie and Clyde, year zero.
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Against Silencing: Why All Writers—Even White Men—Should Discuss Gender
What does it mean for men to talk about being men?
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Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold
Brian Gresko reviews Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold today in Rumpus Books.
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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.
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Orphans by Ben Tanzer
Brian Gresko reviews Ben Tanzer’s ORPHANS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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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.
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“Stupid Children,” by Lenore Zion
Reminiscent of a protagonist in an early Haruki Murakami novel, Jane is a passive agitator, an active observer.
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“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 at this age-old assumption. Love’s quick current can carry a couple into marriage, but is it possible for two people to keep their romance and […]
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“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 “wasting God’s seed.” Even thoughts could be dangerous, as what’s a fantasy but the seed for future sin?
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