Facing Sex Addiction: A John Comes Clean
“Mike” contacted me for advice about the stripper he was seeing after he’d read my column on The Rumpus. He told me that when his wife was diagnosed with pancreatic…
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Beside Her
Once a bright and talented writer and professor, my mother now can no longer write. She tries, but she can’t spell her name, or mine, and letters run off the page. I am humbled by how quickly time passes and how roles change. Frightened, too. Where will we both be in another fifteen years?
FUNNY WOMEN #85: Baby Logic
On the South side of Tucson near the Samsonite factory you’ll see a woman who’s usually naked except for a long T-shirt.
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: George Singleton
George has never studied literature with me. There’s nothing I could teach him that a good bottle of cough medicine hasn’t already.
The Politics of Entitlement
To be entitled means believing you have an inherent right to something. It is very easy to feel entitled, to feel like we deserve a certain quality of life or…
OG DAD #11: How To Depress A Baby
Ideas, as famed vegetarian and human breast milk fan, George Bernard Shaw, once said, are not responsible for the people who embrace them.
The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Berry
Lauren Berry, author of The Lifting Dress, discusses her experiences as a high school teacher, in an effort to continue a needed conversation about careers for graduates of Creative Writing MFA programs.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #152
Today’s Ted Wilson’s review was censored. You can request his review of the Holocaust by emailing [email protected].
SELF-MADE MAN #16: Trapped in the Right Body
Binaries are luxuries I can only study clinically; they lost their soothing qualities when I prioritized my reality over yours.