Last summer, I was one of many wide-eyed emerging writers who attended a craft seminar during The New School’s Summer Writers Colony where Elissa Bassist, the editor of the Funny Women column on TheRumpus.net, discussed what it means to write humor in New York.
In a small riverside park in Greenpoint, there is a mural of a girl lying on a blanket, pulling petals from a handful of daisies. The mural is maybe twenty feet high and covers the […]
You can’t write the book that you think other people wanna see. It’s not worth it.
Tyehimba Jess earned his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from New York University. He is the author of leadbelly, a biographical poetry collection about the history of the blues musician, and […]
Next to a gas station on Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street, a large building covered in colorful murals awaits a premature vacancy. The Silent Barn Collective, a DIY music venue and collaborative living and art […]
We sit in makeshift bleachers, faces in darkness, weight shifting from thigh to thigh in anticipation. I close my eyes for what feels like seconds, and a light flashes from behind my lids. I open […]
