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.
Life is all about taking chances: asking your crush out, jumping out of a plane, adding (roasted) almonds to your salad.
Marge ends up back in the same spot where she began, idly considering the corn-patterned curtains as she washes the dishes.
Alexandra Shelley has over 30 years of editing experience. She worked as an independent editor with author Kathryn Stockett on The Help, and with Martha Hall Kelly on both Lilac Girls and Lost Roses.
our palms pulping blue as homage, farewells.
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, animator, and comix artist working between Mumbai and New York City. She makes zines to cope with life. She also goes by @thejackfruitslayer
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, animator, and comix artist working between Mumbai and New York City. She makes zines to cope with life. She also goes by @thejackfruitslayer
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, animator, and comix artist working between Mumbai and New York City. She makes zines to cope with life. She also goes by @thejackfruitslayer
damn the children’s wing.
The New School’s Creative Writing courses have inspired a wealth of published material, including several recent releases. Professor Susan Shapiro’s smart new book, The Byline Bible (Writer’s Digest Books) was directly inspired by her popular […]
“Nostalgia” | Mixed Media on Canvas (2018) “1 Quarter Not Yet Whole” Acrylic on Canvas (2017) “Friends” Acrylic on Wood (2016) Mizuki Nishiyama is a painter currently based in New York City and a […]
I am too bothered to see correctly
May, 1989. Horacio Castellanos Moya is working as a journalist in Mexico, reporting in exile on the civil war in El Salvador. His debut novel, La diáspora (released in the US for the first time […]
Buzzing fishbowl of starving artists seeks independently wealthy male (or any person, et al. who identifies as a “Sugar Daddy”) to fund our undergraduate literary journal, 12th Street, a serious, professional, funny, and sometimes scary […]
Mother recalls dead cells before and after my time.
In the New York City transportation system, bike accidents are considered especially unimportant. The dedicated walkers who roam the streets and nearly get killed by cyclists have not responded to my ad on Craigslist, so […]
PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR MY SKIN
her moonlit coat was blue
It’s a dismal, rainy evening, but Ruth Reichl has a crowd of soggy New Yorkers in stitches. The iconic food critic and former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine is telling the story of her attempt to review a […]
