Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Alissa Nutting
She had chosen to defy all reasonable laws of feminine desire by spurning me as a sexual object. And yet she had managed to publish a book.
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Steve Almond
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Steve Almond's most recent book, Against Football, was a New York Times bestseller for at least three seconds.
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life #3
How I Became a Music Critic: At age 19, I was assigned to review Bob Dylan in concert, despite the fact that I had very little sense of who Bob…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #20: Ascension
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995… but this is the end of the line) With an introduction by Matthew Zapruder **
Let Us Now Raze Famous Men
A Rumpus Meditation on Editors, Ambition, and Angry Dependence (in 33 loosely jointed parts): 1. On July 30, the managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, Kevin Morrissey, took his…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #19: Graduation Party
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Graduation Party It looks, from a distance, like a track and field tourney: so much avid motion in shorts and…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #18: The Math of Betrayal
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) The Math of Betrayal The math of betrayal my friends will never line up
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #17: Cry Timber
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Cry Timber I am long tired of the tyranny of trees
The New Yorker’s One Over 40
A special Rumpus lamentation with possible added pep talk. *** So last week the New Yorker published their once-a-decade Fiction Issue, in which they printed eight stories, along with their…
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Tracey Wigfield
[L]et me introduce my former student Tracey Wigfield, who is now a writer for the television program 30 Rock. I am so happy for Tracey that I am now weeping inconsolably.
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #16: To the Men At Work Outside My Window
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) To the Men At Work Outside My Window See here, fellows: It is me, your skinny-stemmed little daisy faggot boy…