Fates and Hashtags
What would the main characters from Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies be like on Twitter? At The Millions, Claire Cameron imagines what sort of missives Lotto and Mathilde Satterwhite would tweet out…
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Tamara Matthews is a Chicago-based freelance writer and editor. Visit tamaramatthews.com or find her on Twitter: @writingtoatee.
Gina Frangello’s Kind of Wanting
At Electric Literature, Heather Scott Partington interviews former Rumpus Sunday Editor (and forever friend) Gina Frangello about her latest novel, Every Kind of Wanting. They discuss other writers who have influenced…
The Amazing Fashion Week Adventures of Michael Chabon and Son
For GQ, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon applies his discerning eye to a subject close to his heart: his fashion-obsessed son: He would lay out its components, making a kind of…
You Are Never Alone If There’s a Poem
I’ve often wondered if my turn to poetry in times of loneliness and uncertainty is a behavior that’s naturally implicit within the genre or if it upholds some cliché notion…
Don’t #Hate Me Bro
When it feels as though the whole world is out to get you, sometimes you have to sit back and let the absurdity wash over. In this satirical story by…
Poems for Airports
In his relatable poem in Hunger Mountain, “Observations at the Security Checkpoint,” Joel Brouwer gently explores traveling life under our TSA overlords: Now our gestures grow both more hurried and…
Love Me Tinder
What she felt: nothing, and as he spoke more nothing perched, nested, laid eggs, and caught the avian flu inside her. Riffing on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night,…
Buddha Bowls and Wine for All
At Granta, Eliza Robertson imagines a maenad from Greek mythology as a listless California nymph in a supremely weird and imaginative story: They light Nag Champa incense and sit on the Moroccan floor…
The Appeal of Ferrante and Knausgaard
On Lit Hub, Stephanie Grant examines the deep pleasure and connection readers experience with the works of Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard. She suspects the familiar tone of both…
The Body and the Disembodied
Little sleeve, Is this really what we call saving? Across an ocean drones are banqueting as bees as bombs in bridal arrangements & we call this progress. The satellites are…
A Tumblr Full of Lolitas
On the Ploughshares blog, Mishka Hoosen explores the phenomenon of young women claiming for themselves the “nymphet” moniker on various Tumblr pages. Hoosen argues that it is more than simplistic fetishization…
The Ghost Is You
At Electric Literature, Samantha Tanner reaches out to the dead via a spiritual medium, confronting the ghosts and echoes that haunt anyone who writes about family. Along the way she contemplates…