Elizabeth Stark reviews This Is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden and How to Party with an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings today in Rumpus Books.
...moreRumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade.
...moreWhen my father left and my mother went crazy and carved into every wooden surface of our house a name that wasn’t hers or his, I asked what she was doing. She made me get down the dictionary. “Simoom,” I read…
...moreSelf, in this case, being a member of The Rumpus, not me personally. Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants, the blog How to Party With an Infant and our very own Bad Mommy Blog, is having her novel made into a movie by Alexander Payne and Fox Searchlight Pictures. Awesome!
...more1. Saturday night party/silent auction for a school. Daniel Kim was there, looking around. My husband goes, “Hey, are you lost?” 2. One of the items up for bid was to be the headmaster for a day. In the program this was most unfortunately titled, “Head For a Day.” When this is presented to a table […]
...more“Ow. That hurts. I’m in pain.” These are a few things Andy (the husband) will never say. After a snowboarding mishap he blacked out, woke and noticed it hurt when his friend kept jabbing him in the stomach. He googled his symptoms and figured he was bleeding internally and he may have ruptured his spleen. Did […]
...moreI have a few more things to say about the princess posse. I didn’t say it all in one post because I have a short attention span and figure you do, too. The princesses aren’t that big a deal. Far worse things await: the Jonas Brothers, for instance, or teen idols with babies and/or meth […]
...moreWithin one minute of meeting my waxer I am on a bed, naked from the waist down and her hand is on my vagina. I’m trying to think of something to say, but all that comes to mind is: “So, have you seen any good ones lately?” She runs over my little remark with remarks […]
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