After the VIDA counts in 2010 and 2011, as well as Jennifer Weiner’s count she released on her blog in January 2012, I wanted to see where things stood for…
To use a tennis analogy, I played all four corners in an attempt to interview clients. I hit up escort friends of mine with long-terms regulars, old clients who were articulate and thoughtful and guys I’d never met who had contacted me with sex work-related questions.
The second time I meet Sheila Heti I’m standing outside the gated front yard of her home on a cold, sunny day in Toronto. The overgrowth and general unkemptness of…
You have never played a video game before in your life, and when your friend hands you a boxy gray controller, turns on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and walks away,…
“Put yourself in a frame of mind that you can allow whatever’s going to happen, happen, and be okay with it. If you walk into a room and immediately put up walls, you’ll never find the doors.”
The Rumpus has made it possible for me to talk to a lot of musicians I might not otherwise have met, but meeting Mike Watt, founding member of The Minutmen,…