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What Is Freedom: Elissa Altman
I had her in my life for eighteen years and ten months before I got the call on a snowy April morning in 1982 that she had died the night before, of a massive heart attack. We lived across the…
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Normalcy? In This Economy?
Perverts is full of squirting, fingering, vibrators, life-changing kisses, and of course, meaningful lesbian glances. Yet intimacy, if it ever arrives, does so as a terrifying and delightful surprise.
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Aesthetic Nostalgia
Before I fell in love with my name, my biggest reservation was that it gave people an impression of my father I knew to be inexact. These days, because of how much I love my name, it is easy to…
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Read Everything You Can and Keep Writing: A Conversation with Tracy Lynne Oliver
“You just don’t know how long something’s going to take to get published in terms of a book. But start small: Start publishing little things; get feedback; get rejected; get accepted. That’s all part of it. Just do all of…
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I’ll Just Be Here Leaving
All teeth tell a story. You were a smoker. You were malnourished. You were an addict. You completely forgot they existed.
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Love’s Language
Love exposes the so-called “truth” of the world to be a fabrication and asks us to imagine what freedom might look like. No wonder philosophers like Alain Badiou and Mari Ruti champion love so fiercely in their work. Love unsettles…
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A Poem with Cops in It
There shouldn’t be cops in this poem.If we can’t be abolitionist in a poem, then where?But it’s July and there are cops everywhere & yesterdaythere was a beautiful balding man on west 14th,stooping & sweating like Frank O’Hara, dead 59…
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What Is Freedom: Stefan Sagmeister
Freedom is enjoying your work so much that you would keep doing it even if the money stopped, and being in the position to actually do it. Most people love a thing they are never allowed to spend their days…
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The July Rumpus Book Club Selection: Magician by Tracy Lynne Oliver
Our second installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* will be on July 28th at 7pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Tracy Lynne Oliver about her debut novel Magician, a dark fantasy that follows a Boy…
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Cruise Ships, Clowns, and Comedic Calamity: An Interview with Kathleen Rooney
“It bugs me that in our culture, animal stories are typically relegated to being “just for kids,” a bias which underestimates both animals and kids.Fiction is a form of magic that lets an author—and eventually a reader—inhabit any kind of…
