What to Read When You Want to Disappear
When I moved from my small, rural hometown to New York City I was brutally homesick, and it was as if people could smell it on me. Who was this scrawny provincial walking around like a sick dog,...
View ArticleNotable Chicago: 1/11–1/17
Friday 1/11: Visit Women & Children First for a poetry reading with Chicago House’s TransWorks Mentorship Program, featuring Cassie, Keegan, Casper Hanney, Angel Nordstrom, and Mara Williamson. 7...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 1/12–1/18
Monday 1/14: Hannah Tinti, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Laura Adamczyk, Kem Joy Ukwu, and Matthew Daddona join the Franklin Park Reading series. Franklin Park, 8 p.m., free. Shy Watson, Cynthia Manick, Valerie...
View ArticleNotable Online: 3/7–3/13
Sunday 3/7: Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk, Jennine Capó Crucet, Koritha Mitchell, Keya Mitra, and Rhonda Welsh join the First Person Plural reading series, with host Stacy Parker Le Melle. Zoom, 6 p.m....
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Curtis Sittenfeld
“Do you write fiction?” Curtis Sittenfeld asked me during our phone interview. When I answered in the affirmative, she said, “I had a hunch. I psychically knew that you did.” Okay, so maybe she was...
View ArticleMore Misogyny in Texas
Last year, we covered Wendy Davis’s heroic attempt to prevent a draconian anti-abortion bill from passing in Texas with two phenomenal essays, one by Callie Collins and one by Amy Gentry. Now Davis is...
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