romance
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Growing Up Gaming
“Is this inclusive or exclusive?” he asked with a creased brow. “I don’t like the idea that we’re being treated as a joke.”
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FUNNY WOMEN #128: At This Fondue Restaurant, the Word Is “Romance”
Welcome to the Steaming Crock, where we empower you to transform raw chunks of meat into cooked chunks of meat!
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Some Old Pick-Up Lines
I very much desire to make your acquaintance. If agreeable please return this card, appointing a time and place for interview, on the other side. Before Tinder or texting, people flirted the old-fashioned way: with escort cards. Messy Nessy Chic…
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Missed Connection: White Teeth
Scenario: you are on the train, you are sitting across from a man in a baseball cap reading, say, White Teeth, and in a matter of seconds you’ve visualized an entire literary life with him (the next stop, he gets…
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Writing Romance Fiction is a Feminist Act
The overall theme of feminism, for me, is not about having it all. It’s about having what you want and being honest about who you are. It’s about respecting who you are and what you do.
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All the Longing Left in the Body
“Sorry,” she said as she passed me in the entrance to the women’s room. “That’s my husband in the other stall. Don’t mind him.” She was going back to her car.
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We Are Only So Much Monkey: Lessons Learned From Failure
The earliest piece of advice my mother ever gave me was simply this: “Marry a man, Amy. Not a monkey.”
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Happy sexin’ day, everyone! This isn’t my favorite holiday, so I’m gonna let the Book Bench do all the talkin’ about it with these Dear John letters and some blogging on emails and romance. Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy points us in…
