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  • Thomas Page McBee

Self-Made Man #24: Love Your Emergency

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • November 19, 2013
As I look toward the East River and my teenage summers, I sometimes see my old body continuing on without me, living the slow-and-steady life I’d planned for so carefully and not this spectacular mess I’ve come, I think, to prefer.
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Mendokusai (I Can’t Be Bothered)

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 21, 2013
Young people who aren’t interested in marriage or children, sure, but young people who aren’t interested in sex? According to this article in the Guardian, that’s increasingly the case in Japan,…
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Love Love Love

  • Lizzy Acker
  • September 13, 2013
“You could have the baby," he said. "Best case scenario, it would absolutely destroy my relationship, like completely burn it to the ground, and then we would get together. It would be hard, but I would do it."
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Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • May 23, 2012
No one comes in to check on me, no one asks if I’m okay after I finally emerge, embarrassed, my eyes completely red. They all love me, but not enough to forgive what I’m about to do.
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“No, I’m the Narrator”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • April 13, 2012
At The New York Times, author and Rumpus contributor Jami Attenberg writes about the the disorientation and fear that came when, after a break-up, her ex-boyfriend started a site about…
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Songs of Our Lives: Frida Hyvönen’s “Pony”

  • Andrea Baker
  • October 14, 2011
His loneliness lay around me like a fence. The promise was that once I solved the loneliness the fence would dissipate. But I couldn’t solve it.
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  • Sex

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #54: The Lusty Broad

  • Sugar
  • October 21, 2010
The question is how would your life be transformed if you chose to love this time for once with all your intelligence?
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Writing While (Not) Loving, Loving While (Not) Writing

  • Michael Berger
  • February 4, 2010
“Edmund Wilson encouraged his second wife Mary McCarthy’s first forays into fiction by shutting her in a room for three hours and asking her to write a story. Author Shirley…
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