The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Bill Cosby’s Faux Legacy
Bill Cosby was never the man, the icon, the protector and illustrator of black culture, the guide, the genius we have created in our minds.
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Nuclear Family
This is how I understood the nucleus: the minimum of what we need, and that which forms the “originating core” or heart of us, the three of us.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: How to Publish Your Short Story in Thirty Years or Less
Listen carefully; there’s music in the air.
Seven Almonds
The first thing my parents bought when they earned money in America was a giant bag of almonds as a talisman for success.
OG Dad #27: Tiny Brandos
Forgive me if I’ve said it before, but now that I’m working dad duty without heroin I can see why I needed it.
Something Small and Heavy
This is not a biography, photograph, or method of cloning, not footage, not a transcription—in short: this is not faithful.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Stepfatherhood
“He was my real dad,” she says. “I just happened to have two.”
OG DAD #26: The Greedy Fox
Phobic or diligent? You be the judge. All fodder to feed into the Daddy neurosis machine.
Body of Words
Standing at the pool’s edge, he planted his eyes on the V-shape of my body where my legs met at my hips, where I felt the water drip. I saw his brown irises turn hard and hungry.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Reading Don Quijote with My Mother
“That’s the anthem I would have sung at my original graduation if the university had stayed open,” my mother said.
OG Dad #25: In The Interest Of Rectal Security
The great thing about having a two-year-old in the house is you feel your mortality like a happy little gun to your head.