Rumpus Exclusive: Excerpts from All Hack
I had another cab dream last night. I have them a lot.
...moreI had another cab dream last night. I have them a lot.
...moreFifty-plus years is surely too long ago to cash in on a bailout.
...moreI’m struck by a horrifying thought: they’ll stop only if I crash.
...moreI wasn’t into girl stuff, but I loved James Bond!
...moreA warm wash of confidence came over me. You don’t really know who you are until you know which car you’re following.
...moreI tried to forget again that I once meant to leave, that on a few occasions I had actually felt transported by love.
...moreI’ve become an abridged version of myself—made half-done and meager. Made hungry for answers.
...moreExperimental philosopher Jonathon Keats discusses Buckminster Fuller, three-wheeled cars, domed cities, climate change, and cameras with a 100-year exposure time.
...moreFor the past century American writers and artists have been obsessed with that shimmering, sexy, liberating, lethal contraption known as the automobile…Is there a more potent metaphor for American restlessness, for the American hunger for status and sex, for the American tendency to wind up, broken and bloody, in a ditch? Driving a huge metal […]
...moreAmerica is a beautiful country and it was beautiful before we got here. I’m not sure yet if we, the ancestral echo of colonizers, are a beautiful people. I often have doubts.
...moreI refuse to be resolvable. I wait. I wait for confusion to become a resting place for resolution to become a moving organism, an evolution foretold by my body.
...moreWayne Harrison discusses his debut novel, The Spark and the Drive, fiction, working as a correctional officer, and Carl Benz’s three-wheeled Motor Car.
...moreNew York indie band Vampire Weekend somehow have proven that music videos are still culturally relevant. Earning them the response, “Vampire Weekend are a bunch of dicks,” the music video for their song “Diane Young” (which is great) shows an older Saab burning with the New York City skyline looming behind it. Patrick George saw […]
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