What to Read When You Don’t Know What to Wear
Megan Volpert shares a reading list to celebrate CLOSET CASES.
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Posts Tagged: Summer Brennan
Notable San Francisco: 5/8–5/14
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Notable NYC: 3/16–3/22
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
...moreDIY Presidents
I believe in an activated, alkalized, adaptogenic, artisanal America, and I’m glad that I can count on your vote in this, that most authentic of experiences, the American Presidential Primary. Over at McSweeney’s, Summer Brennan pens the perfect artisanal presidential candidate’s campaign speech.
...moreStacks on Stacks
Remind yourself that you are in control. The New Yorker is there for you and not the other way around. It is your feelings that matter in this relationship. Sure, we all subscribe. But who really has time to read all those New Yorkers?
...moreWeekly Geekery
The smartphone is the new washing machine. Your ad blocker pain is someone else’s gain. Clutch your pearls! Women are using technology to have sex. Science wants all you kids off his lawn. Oysters and the meaning of the wilderness.
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Like a Rock
When I think about relationships that I idolize from literature, they are almost all friendships based on loyalty and adventure.
...moreA “Ridiculous, Potent Musical Minefield”
As part of McSweeney’s long-running series “Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond,” Summer Brennan wrote “An Open Letter to the Mix Tape Made for Me by My College Boyfriend, Now Deceased.” It’s exactly as poignant and sadly funny as the title makes it sound, and in Brennan’s able hands, it […]
...moreWriting When Your Day Job Is Also Writing
The Believer‘s blog has a really splendid interview with writer, editor, and UN employee Summer Brennan. Brennan talks to Nicolle Elizabeth about what it’s like to write non-creatively for a living, and then come home to write some more but on your own terms. One of many excellent quotes: The more writing I have to do […]
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