The Ghost of Milagro Creek
“The heat grew into a living thing. I felt all of us hunkering down and shrinking back to mother earth with our hearts racing toward each other. There was no…
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The Rumpus Review of The Kids Are All Right
When you don’t believe that a truth is self-evident, you justify it to others. You try to explain.
SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #5: The Gurus of Gash
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss Vs. The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida.
All the Whiskey in Heaven
In short, [Charles] Bernstein is taking apart the structures of conventional poetry, and more generally of the language we use every day – and which in turn uses us –…
The Rumpus Interview with Pinckney Benedict
“I certainly hope we’re all writing about those things that matter most to us.”
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #28: The Toss-Up Talcum Chronicle
Much ado about LeBron James, Haruki Murakami, free agency, and home.
Herself, Only Reversed
The Hollywood dreams of this novel’s heroine are much like the tenets of her fundamentalist upbringing: first sacrifice, then redemption, then apocalyptic paradise.
The Man I Gave a Hand Job in West Hollywood Will Surely Blow His Brains Out Before I See Him Again
I was dumped over the phone by the man I’ve been dating for several months. I’d never had such an abrupt, hostile break up.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #43
I-PHONE 4 ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the I-phone 4.