On Dog Ears
Do you dog-ear the pages of your books? Photographer Erica Baum sees dog-eared pages as more than placeholders. In her new book, Dog Ear, she photographed dog-eared pages of mass-market…
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LaToya Jordan
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LaToya Jordan is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Thick-Skinned Sugar (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016. Her writing has appeared in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Mom Egg Review, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. Visit her at latoyajordan.com.
Writers, Time to Stand Up
“Literature isn’t a 6-year-old dyslexic girl who has to be drilled on the difference between b’s and d’s and p’s and q’s. Literature isn’t weak. It’s strong. It isn’t given.…
Doing the SlutWalk
Not to be confused with the walk of shame: SlutWalks are a rising movement to draw attention to the culture of blaming the victim in sexual assault cases. The first…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Take a look at the list of banned words at New York magazine under former editor Kurt Andersen. (via) The Rapture didn’t happen, but Maud Newton’s 40th birthday did. The…
The Rumpus Sunday Books Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Below, check out our reviews, interviews, and essays.
Notable New York, This Week 5/16-5/22
This week in New York Danzy Senna at BookCourt, Europa turns out its 100th book; I Am Turning Into My Mother six-word stories at 92YTribeca; Steamboat literary comedy series at…
Doll Fascination
File these two under “a freaky campaign to get adults to play with dolls”: Did you know that Barbie likes director David Lynch’s organic coffee? Or that your favorite doll…
100 Interviews
Late last year, Gaby Dunn, a New York journalist and comedian, set out to interview 100 people in a year (deadline October 1, 2011) for her project titled “100 Interviews.”…
Whitewashing the X-Men
“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Below, check out some reviews and essays: Does Sad Sell? — An essay by Raina Wallens on grief memoirs.
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Nice news: Figment, the writing community website for teens, receives $1 million. This is not your kid’s graphic book: Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John.…