Janice Erlbaum | Author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir - Writing

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older work

A selection of published and unpublished work from years past.

Front cover of spiral notebook reading APRIL 1995

girl bomb diaries

My Preoccupation With Blackhead Extraction Videos as Understood in Various Personal, Social, and Spiritual Contexts

How I Knew You Were Lying

Old hand-drawn flyer advertising a high school toga party

When In Rome

Protest sign reading LIAR RACIST FRAUD COWARD RESIST IMPEACH

Kumbaya, Motherfucker

Black and white photo of a young boy reading a newspaper in a bathtub, fully clothed

This One Is Just Right (The Rumpus)

A screenshot from an online article with the header "The Intersectionality of Being an Asshole"

Confessions Of A (Former) White Savior (Thought Catalog)

Photo of the front of the Utopia Diner in New York City, where Janice and friends went in 1985

Utopia (Lumina Magazine)

Janice holds up both hands, giving the "thumbs down" on one side and the "thumbs up" on the other side.

It Happened to Me: I Was an Adult Thumb Sucker (xoJane)

Beck Bennet from SNL wearing a feminist t-shirt

The Creepist (Nerve.com)

Photo of Janice at KGB bar, March 10, 2008

The Other Sestina (The Best American Poetry Blog)

Egg Heart (Nerve.com)

The Temp (McSweeney’s)

Humorous flyer referencing the song Someone Left the Cake Out in the rain

Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain (NYPress)

Motivational poster featuring man in sunrise shadow holding up a fist

Ways I Can Change My Life (NYPress)

Watching Him Fuck Her (BUST)

warm in the sun, talking about synergy

In my dream, I told people, I'm thinking of having a baby. And they asked some question like where or how. And I said, in my uterus I was thinking.

status and worth and talent

Just saw Ava on the way to the train. Her face is still ugly, and her hair looks fake.

thinking about fucking and actually fucking

Got drunk on Scotch and Guinness at Tom & Jerry’s last night, my last night at the Press. MG fell down drunk and incoherent after telling me he'd always hoped we'd get togethe