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On Loving and Leaving New York: Home
Driving down Second Avenue, we saw the usuals: skater kids and college students, queens and models and junkies. My heart hurt more and more. The landmarks of my most troubled memories now filled my heart with longing. I even missed my ghosts.
On Loving And Leaving New York: Currency
Maybe you’ll be an actress. Maybe you’ll do stand up. Maybe you’ll suck dick for money.
The Rumpus Interview with Sari Botton
We sit down with Sari Botton, long-time Rumpus contributor and author of our "Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me" column, to talk about her new anthology, Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, and more.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Charles Blackstone
At the launch of his new novel, Vintage Attraction, the multi-talented Managing Editor of Bookslut sits down, over a figurative glass of fine wine, to spill his passions.
Saturday Rumpus Comic: Time Zone
Do you know the time zone of your head or your feet or the tip of your left middle finger?
The Lonely Voice #26: Brief Thoughts on Alvaro Mutis’s “The Tramp Steamer’s Last Port Of Call”
The Lonely Voice was sorry to hear of the passing of the great Alvaro Mutis who died last month in Mexico City.
Albums of Our Lives: The Soundtrack to The Decline of Western Civilization, Part I
The Decline introduced me to bands like the Germs and X that I would come to love later in college when I needed a break from playing indie rock on campus radio.
The Rumpus Interview with Nick Antosca
Nick Antosca, author of the recent collection The Girlfriend Game, talks about balancing fiction and writing for TV, hypnotism, horror films, and packing a lot of crazy shit into his stories.
Self Made Man #23: Serenity Prayer
In this new New York, I’m living inside the Serenity Prayer. I say this at brunch and people laugh but I mean it.
Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Six
When he retires at the end of the year, he’ll be remembered as one of the best tight ends in NFL history, and as a man whose heart, athletic skills, and bilingual outreach have made him a hero to Spanish-speaking football fans around the world.