Rumpus Comics
Welcome to South Bend: Bail Out Studebaker
Fifty-plus years is surely too long ago to cash in on a bailout.
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Welcome to South Bend: Notre Dame Football
When the air turns cool, and the leaves turn color.
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Change Your Name in Indiana
I don’t even know what planet I’m on!
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Welcome to South Bend: My Current Literary Crush
[G]ood writing can also distract us from what’s not being said.
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Get Out of Jury Duty
Oh god, do I have to publicly admit I watch The Bachelor?
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Welcome to South Bend: Mr. Answerpants
We arrived at the South Bend Civic Theatre 45 minutes early for Mayor’s Night Out.
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Spotlight: “I Met Prince Once”
While struggling with a severe bout of depression I found myself inexplicably drawn to Prince’s music.
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Spotlight: “Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene and Cell Decay”
Maybe that’s what we should teach in schools.
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Spotlight: “Reflections on My Quiet Nature”
Living in an extrovert-oriented society, I’ve always struggled to accept my own introverted nature.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Song for the Unraveling of the World
Even at its most earthbound, I’d rather spend my time in Evenson’s world…
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Spotlight: “As Before, So Behind (redux)”
What follows is an attempt to speak to the living, as well as the dead.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Why Buddhism Is True
Our feelings and thoughts fight it out offstage and our ego tells a story to justify the result.
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Spotlight: “Roving Woman”
How sad, sure, but also how haunting, thrilling, lovely, and sweet.
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet
In 1999 I was five. I was really just discovering comics for the first time—mostly by reading Spiderman.
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Spotlight: “My Dead Friend’s Favorite Book”
Whenever I need to be close to Chelsea and the lessons she taught me, all I have to do is read.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Demon-Haunted World
The same factors that made us burn witches cause us to fall for fake news…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Bloody Chamber
They demand to be read aloud, the vocabulary seductively textured, tactile, like fan-vaulted chanterelles.
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