“Baghdad Country Club” Giveaway!
Have you read our excerpt from Joshuah Bearman’s “Baghdad Country Club” yet? If you haven’t already gone to The Atavist to get the whole story, hold up! The first five…
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On Revelations
“When you write personally and intimately, difficult questions arise. Whose stories do we, as writers, have the right to tell? To what extent do we have the right to write…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Seriously you guys, The Big Picture’s year in review is the best thing about December (part three may be live by the time this is). How do anglerfish mate? Fascinatingly!…
Holiday Tales
Whether you’re heading to your childhood home or staying put in your studio apartment, The Awl has a couple stories to get you in the holiday groove. Check out Amy…
Depressing Sex: An Essay in Pictures
Artist Jason Novak brings us his tale “Depressing Sex: An essay in pictures.” Enjoy:
Ending Violence Against Sex Workers
This past Saturday, December 17th marked the 9th year of the annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. SF Bay Guardian looks back at the history of the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
New York City cops in the 1970s. “How Much More Do Books Cost Today?” Old dude dancing to contemporary music.
Cinema’s Occupy Zeitgeist
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes explores the “Occupy zeitgeist” in 2011 cinema over at Filmmaker. Rombes reveals how films such as Drive, Meek’s Cutoff, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Tree of…
“La Femme Rouge: Redux,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Veronica Golos
La Femme Rouge: Redux (Red Riding Hood, Aged) What I know is more than thorn and thistle, whistling through an oak forest, trees large as barns.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hooray for bio-luminescence! (part 2) Atlas Obscura has some hand info on the deaths of the last week. Here is your Christmas spirit for the day. Oh my gosh you…
The Unblinking Eye
At The Awl, Blake Butler reflects on attachment to the Internet world (and the machines with which we enter) as well as the meaning of obsession. “It seems too late…
Empowerment, Sugar Style
Rumpus contributor Anna March gives Sugar some love over at StyleSubstanceSoul. In the third of her regular column focusing on “sexist products and media portrayals of women, counterbalanced by those…