The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Only Thing That Matters
In the beginning, I pushed the baby along the lake. When the baby cried, no matter what I offered him, the only thing I knew to do was strap him into the stroller and push him down the sidewalk. We...
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First, Julie Marie Wade reviews the “solar system” of Kimberly Burwick’s poetry collection, Good Night Brother. The son—or “sun”—in the title “burns everyone and everything it touches.” He/it “has gone...
View ArticleRumpus Exclusive: “Kristy’s Invisible Hand and Das Baby-Sitters Club Kapital”
My first encounter with girls as ardent capitalists happened between the covers of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club books. The original series totaled 131 installments and from the series’ first page,...
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