BAD MOMMY BLOG: Six Reasons Why The Bad Mommy Will Never Be A Good Socialite
1. 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...
View ArticleTHE EYEBALL: Pig Hunt and Lost Season 4
Tuesday night I had the pleasure of reading a short story at therumpus.net’s Seattle launch party, prior to a screening of the film Pig Hunt. Director Jim Isaac served up guns, blood, taxidermy, boobs,...
View ArticleThe Shield
I’ve just come home from visiting my family to an empty apartment and the sharp musk of old air that fills it. The apartment had been sitting too long. The air had been too still. I sweep the floors...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carmen Giménez Smith
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Carmen Giménez Smith about her poetry collection Goodbye, Flicker. This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Carmen Giménez Smith....
View ArticleA Man’s ABCs of Miscarriage
A is for Alphabet. Long before Patty got pregnant, my Facebook friends populated my newsfeed with articles discussing the importance of words in a child’s development. So when, a couple years later,...
View ArticleNames Are Always the First Lock on Any Cage: Talking with Dolan Morgan
I first met Dolan Morgan at a literary event in New York City. We were probably at the Franklin Park Reading Series, one of my favorite Brooklyn readings, when we first had a conversation. I thought he...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Samantha Irby
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Samantha Irby about her new essay collection, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, all that comes along with writing about your life, and reading great horror books. This...
View ArticleA Redemptive Elsewhere: Rohan Chhetri’s Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful
In American auteur Jim Jarmusch’s mid-90s neo-Western odyssey, Dead Man, a young accountant named William Blake (Johnny Depp) is flung into the heartland of a North America intent on existential drama...
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