Independence Night I started reading Doug Dorst’s story collection Sunday, July 4th, as fireworks, invisible from my bedroom’s window, broke the night’s silence. Sweating through a s’more-stained tee shirt, I…
Alex Smith lives in New York City, where he works as a homepage editor at MSN and as a freelance contributor for the New Yorker. During the interview, Alex drank…
Ronnie Lucero and I work together at Nelson’s Meats, a small, independently owned meat market in Albuquerque’s South Valley. He is what used to be called a ‘butcher.’ Nowadays they…
Michaela Drapes and Shannon Robertson write the irreverent knitting blog Yarneteria. They create bespoke hand knit garments and accessories for discerning gentlemen at Kindling and Tinder where they believe you should…
I live on an intentional community in Middlesex, New York – about an hour south of Rochester, near Canandaigua Lake. While I haven’t been here long, and don’t know how…
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Rumpus Book Club member Kevin Thomas took us up on our offer to review last month’s book club selection, Citrus County. But he decided to do his review as a…