No Straight Lines: A Collection of Queer Comics (2 of 3)
During its illustrious run, Gay Comix was the backbone of the LGBT comics scene, providing a space where established comic book creators could expand their artistic horizons...
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The Rumpus Interview with Julian McDonnell
Julian McDonnell discusses selling baby kites, and how he parlayed it into a documentary chronicling the legal tribulations of roving peddlers like himself.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #143
DIGG ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Digg.
No Straight Lines: A Collection of Queer Comics (1 of 3)
Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades...
Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Tale of Two Cities
David L. Ulin, book critic for the LA Times, reminisces about the New York of his youth as he realizes the city now belongs to his son.
Saturday History Lesson: That Time Edith Wharton Wrote Erotica
If you've never been to an archive, this is what it's like: you will go mad from the hum of cranked up air-conditioning. You are usually only allowed to bring a pencil.
Rehearsals for Departure
We take a cab to the outskirts of Bucharest to rent a car for the day. It is early spring, and my wife, Katie, will die in a few months, but this morning, I wonder how we might beat the weekend traffic.
Interpreting My Malady
The unpublished catalogue of fiction inspired by illness is limitless, composed every day, at every hour, in every hospital, clinic, hospice, and bedroom where the ill and injured and even the mildly indisposed attempt to make sense of our altered conditions.
The Rumpus Interview with Shawn Reed of Wet Hair
Longevity is hard to create and sustain. The more you gain, the more you have to lose. It’s that tricky balance of not having too much want, or too much ambition, but still doing something meaningful with your time.
After the Verdict We Watch Fireworks
And that house right there? The one that sits exactly adjacent to field? Whose windows overlook the swings and the monkey bars and the kiddie pool and the slip-n-slide and the blackberry bushes? That is Jerry Sandusky’s house.