“I owed worse than money”
Chris Colin recounts the saga of an unpaid Craigslist I.O.U., which becomes an obsession that forces him to confront his own non-monetary debts. “I didn’t care about the money. I…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Thanks, Feministing!
Inspired by Roxane Gay’s essay “The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion,” the Feministing community discusses triggers and trigger warnings during their weekly weigh-in. We love you back!
“Visible Man”
“Sometimes I catch people staring as I bike past them. Wide-eyed, mouths slightly open as if to question the color of my hair. Red like Mars, like the rings of…
“Neighbor Boy”
Rumpus contributor Conner Habib continues his Guys I Wanted To Fuck in High School series — which chronicles his frustrated coming of age in small-town Pennsylvania — with a new entry…
Thanks, Feministing!
Feministing gives big love to this week’s must-read essay by Lidia Yuknavitch, “Explicit Violence.” We love you back!
A gift that threatens to overwhelm
Saturday Rumpus editor Michelle Dean writes for the New Yorker about Opal Whiteley, the “once celebrated, then controversial, and now forgotten” 1920s child prodigy and diarist. “The fantasy of orphanhood…
“Hard Times in the Uncanny Valley”
Colson Whitehead went on a London Olympics adventure, which you can read all about in his multi-part dispatch for Grantland. “I started scoring events in terms of what they’d offer…
“We don’t listen to the know-it-alls”
“When I tell the people who write me letters that their problems keep me up at night, I’m not joking. I’ve been given a huge gift with this column, and…
The Dish on Depression
Over at The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan gave love to last week’s essay by Katherine Sharpe, “In Praise of Depression.” Thanks, Andrew, we love you back!
R.I.P. Tony Scott
Tony Scott, director of Top Gun and other blockbuster hits, died yesterday at 68 after jumping from a Los Angeles suspension bridge. Scott’s death is under investigation as a suicide.
BECK HANSEN’S SONG READER
Beck has announced that his latest album, Song Reader, composed of “twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music” to be given life by the reader, will be released…
Steinbeck Family Outraged at Use of Lennie Small in Death Row Cases
After learning that Of Mice and Men was invoked in a Texas court to argue for the execution of the mentally impaired, John Steinbeck’s son Thomas spoke out in support of…