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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: An Ocean of Hatted Absurdity

  • Jason Thayer
  • January 31, 2016
I wonder if in absence I will now come to conflate him with the character I’ve drawn. Or with the character I’m drawing now.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Sweetest Kidnapping

  • Cathy Bell
  • January 3, 2016
[S]ometimes you don’t know you’re experiencing a fairytale until years later.
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Odysseus at Telepylos

  • Mike Broida
  • November 18, 2015
Jason had his dragon at Colchis, Theseus had his Minotaur on Crete, Odysseus had his cannibals in their city of Telepylos, and you will have found your own monsters in Philadelphia.
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Accidents

  • Laura Crossett
  • July 15, 2015
Experience is the name people give to their mistakes, said Oscar Wilde. But I don’t think he thought he made a lot of mistakes.
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My Sister’s Legs

  • Lyz Lenz
  • May 18, 2015
Because that’s how it is with sisters. You are them. You are not them. You are broken shards from the same pane of glass, each reflecting a different light.
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“I Just Wasn’t In the Mood to Be Bossed Around”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 9, 2013
In the latest installment of The Toast’s “unglamorous series about DUIs and drinking problems,” Rebecca Pederson relates everything she remembers about being hit by an intoxicated driver while crossing the…
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My Mother, My Daughter

  • Samantha Irby
  • June 18, 2012
My mother became my daughter when I was nine years old.
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