The Rumpus Interview with Russ Kick
Russ Kick, editor of The Graphic Canon and certified information hoarder, gives the lowdown on combining classic literature with comics, cruising for dates with Lord Byron, and masturbating fetuses.
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We don’t know how to talk about children anymore. We get so wrapped up in these shallow narratives about children being preternaturally advanced, about little girls wearing make up and dressing provocatively and seducing the camera, about little girls maturing faster, developing sooner. We forget.
Turning Points #2: Cary Grant in Father Goose
To be accepted, to be relevant, he would need to become someone else. He would spend the next half-century creating that person and then, at age 60, decide that it was time to reveal his true self, in Father Goose.
The Rumpus Interview with Kitzia Esteva
A champion for immigrant rights, Kitzia Esteva talks about the fear and empowerment she embraced while on the UndocuBus, her work as a community organizer, and what Obama’s immigration policies mean to her.
SELF-MADE MAN #18: In Real Life
I used to believe that collapsing the Venn diagram-space between the public and private self was the best way to ensure authenticity.
Albums of Our Lives: Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town
Elizabeth and I took our first road trip a few months into our relationship.
The ‘We’ of Single Motherhood
Taking this leap of faith alone has drawn a network around me in numbers stronger than if I had conceived a child inside a traditional relationship and family. In the big and small moments of this new kind of passage, I’ve found love and connection in the intersecting hubs.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #162
THANKSGIVING, 2012 ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Thanksgiving, 2012.
The Rumpus Interview with Jon Ronson
A "non-stop, fascinatingly meandering, frequently interrupting, talking-over-each-other, freewheeling kind of conversation" with bestselling author Jon Ronson.
Used Books
1. The people who fret over the Future of the Book talk about the loss of the tactile, of the physical act of holding the book. Me, the only thing…
