Indiana Anomie: Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington
a portrait of the American tendency to keep the suffering of others at arm’s length as if misfortune were contagious, or to ruthlessly eliminate it entirely
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Posts Tagged: Indiana
Voices on Addiction: Motherless in Albertsons
I am sick with grief, triggered by my mother’s death, in turn triggered by Chardonnay.
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Malus Domestica
Apples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Welcome to South Bend: The South Bend Fugitive Slave Case
You have shown no proof of your claim. This family may go free.
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Welcome to South Bend: The Poetry of South Bend
All my mixed-up words.
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Living the Unknown: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
I needed this book. Maybe you will, too.
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Welcome To South Bend: A Weekend with the Boot Edge Edges
Yeah. I just quoted Taylor Swift.
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Welcome to South Bend: When Country Music Came to Town
We tuned in on the wrong night.
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Welcome to South Bend: A Love Story
They fell in love and were married in 1922.
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Welcome to South Bend: Notre Dame Football
When the air turns cool, and the leaves turn color.
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Change Your Name in Indiana
I don’t even know what planet I’m on!
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Get Out of Jury Duty
Oh god, do I have to publicly admit I watch The Bachelor?
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Welcome to South Bend: On the Map
Can you find it?
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ira Kaplan’s Favorite Pit Stops
To pull into a rest area and get a bag of KFC or McDonald’s or whatever is kind of soul crushing, or at least it is for us.
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Becoming Bodies
[W]e wanted something different from each other’s bodies than what was actually there, which might be why our bodies sometimes came together.
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Living in the Realm of the Subconscious: Talking with Melissa Fraterrigo
Melissa Fraterrigo discusses her new novel-in-stories, Glory Days, writing speculative fiction, and how our formative years influence us later in life.
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Thick and Thin
Today is not the day I can eat like a normal person and not tomorrow either. But maybe the day after that or the next one after.
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To Look for America: A Road Trip, a Soundtrack
One thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren’t as safe.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Angela Palm
Putting experience into words gives them less power over me, I think.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Rosalie Moffett
Rosalie Moffett discusses her new collection June in Eden, writing humor in poetry, using contemporary references, and trying to understand the world.
...moreThis Week in Books: The Light on the Wall
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an important part of our toolkit in fighting for social justice. If we’re going to move our national narrative away from […]
...moreTouring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland of Trumpland. Be kind to everybody. Make art and fight the power.” Not only was this apt for the evening, but it also describes the […]
...moreWhen Home Doesn’t Embrace
Roxane Gay is from the Midwest, but as a woman of color she feels like an outsider in the rural places she often inhabits. In an essay for Brevity, “Black in Middle America,” Gay examines reactions to her face in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a place so remote “my blackness was more curiosity than threat”, and in Illinois’s cornfields—somewhere blackness […]
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Mike Adams’s Uncompromising Taste
This stuff is my favorite drink in the world, but there’s a lot more to it than that.
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Independent bookstores are thriving because many are adapting technology and learning how to better serve their local community. A stunning new bookstore has opened in eastern China with dazzling displays and whimsical architecture. Bookstores in Barcelona are adapting as Spain deals with a shrinking economy. The New Republic takes a look at how a bookstore […]
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The Conversation: José Olivarez and Nate Marshall
There are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.
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