From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man
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...moreOn a Tuesday night in New York City, a girl meets the love of her life.
...moreAre you wealthy? If so, heyyy.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut poetry collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreLane Moore discusses her first book, HOW TO BE ALONE.
...moreWhen I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”
...moreOver at Lit Hub, Bridget Read discusses the gender politics of Tinder, the rise of the Single Woman, and how these phenomena have permeated recent nonfiction by women: It makes sense that independence would be their chosen frontier, the pursuit of solitude their manifest destiny. The ability to be alone has long been the provenance […]
...moreFor the Guardian, Alison Flood reports that users who share reading interests on a new dating app improve their chances of finding a good match: I’m not sure about the sexy transformation, but I do know that whether it’s with a friend or a partner, there’s little better than discovering a shared love of an author, […]
...moreIsaac Oliver, author of Intimacy Idiot, talks to us about Grindr, OkCupid, different forms of intimacy, and being single in NYC.
...moreFunny Women editor Elissa Bassist has a very funny piece over at The New Yorker about the dating apps of 2014. This one sounds good: Unhinged Description: Disconnect from old connections. Designed for the dumped, the living alone, and the emotionally delayed. How it works: Unhinged is an app and a lifestyle. It defriends, unfollows, dislikes, unsubscribes […]
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