chloe caldwell
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Notable NYC: 2/15–2/21
Saturday 2/15: Luna Miguel, Jacob Steinberg, and Gabby Bess read poetry. Mellow Pages, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 2/16: Stephen Elliott and Julia Fierro join Gina Frangello as she reads from her novel A Life in Men (February 2014). Fierro’s forthcoming…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Here’s hoping you were too busy attending panels and buying Write Like A Motherfucker mugs at this year’s AWP to read The Rumpus this weekend. And here’s hoping you’ll read the two spectacular essays we ran right now. The first…
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Saturday Rumpus Essay: Yodels
I like to push myself. How far can I go? How many slices of pizza can I eat and not die? How many Yodels until I hate myself?
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Links I Like
The Rumpus announced that Chloe Caldwell is writing the next Letter in the Mail, which is funny because this week’s Links I Like celebrates Chloe Caldwell. By funny, I mean synchronous. I wrote the first draft of today’s Links I…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Chloe Caldwell
We’re pleased to announce that the next Letter in the Mail, going out next Thursday, is from Chloe Caldwell! Chloe Caldwell is a Rumpus contributor and interviewee. Her essay collection Legs Get Led Astray and her e-book The New Age Camp both…
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New e-book from Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell, Rumpus contributor and author of the essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, comes out with “The New Age Camp,” a new e-book from Thought Catalog. Get ready for “a summer of Reiki healing, menstrual moon cycle charts, trance dances,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chloe Caldwell
I first saw Chloe Caldwell do her thing a year ago. She read an essay about an orgy she’d participated in and how much she’d enjoyed the orgy, and the particular moments she’d enjoyed,
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Albums of Our Lives: Tori Amos’s Strange Little Girls and Little Earthquakes
I was fourteen when Strange Little Girls was released and I was fifteen when my parents decided to separate.
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“The Trance Dance”
The Nervous Breakdown excerpts Rumpus contributor Chloe Caldwell’s Legs Get Led Astray. “Some girls stood still. Some girls walked around the field. Some girls tried to walk into the woods and we’d take their shoulders, turn them around and send…
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The Last City I Loved: New York
I liked the place; I liked the idea of the place, was in a fortune cookie I once ate while living in New York.
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Legs Get Led Astray
Rumpus contributor Chloe Caldwell’s book of essays, Legs Get Led Astray, will be released this April. You can pre-order the collection from the Future Tense Books website. “Legs Get Led Astray is a provocative collection of essays that vividly rockets the…
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Behind the Scenes of a Regular Sugar Reader
Sugar writes words that I would like tattooed on my tongue. That I want stitched onto my childhood quilt since I can’t actually stitch my heart up with them.