May 2013
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“We are used to hearing that our loved ones have forgotten. There has to be a...”
– 0–9 by Lauren Eyler
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“I used to tell girls in bars, too, not only because once entrenched in the sex...”
– Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Sam Benjamin
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“My grandmother had broken every heart in New York, I told myself, and my mother...”
– A Brief History of Swans by Tara Isabella Burton
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“When Selasi coined “Afropolitan,” she understood that “the media’s portrayals...”
– Stacie Williams reviews Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
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“There’s not a single person out there whose life hasn’t been touched by the...”
– The Rumpus Interview with Susan Wright, founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
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when Diana Prince spins, her
nimbus fills me with glee and glow and when
I was a boy I wore my mother’s high
heels and wrapped my Binky around my neck
like a cape and then coiled it at my side
my blanket of truth and I spun and spun
arms outstretched and wanted that light to fill
me, envelop me the way I saw it
change Lynda Carter on TV
From Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger,...
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“As any recovering alcoholic can tell you, practice works just as well in the...”
– Hanne Blank’s Deep Throat #4: On Being and Unbeing a Singer
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“The Drew’s community of River Heights is in many ways a typical Midwestern town,...”
– FUNNY WOMEN #101: Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis for N. Drew by Susan Schorn
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“THIS IS REAGAN COUNTRY,” offers a wizened sign atop the roof of the town...”
– Beyond Americana by Zach Schonfeld
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“Speedboat somehow does without plot all the stuff that is usually plot’s...”
– Menachem Kaiser reviews Speedboat and Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
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“(Which, don’t even get me started, half the fun of listening to music and...”
– I would buy a 1000-page book of John Darnielle’s parentheticals (via rachelfershleiser)
“However not everyone is a ghost, yet.” [Emphasis mine.]
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“The kiss wasn’t heavy or too high-stakes. It had come, I’d have said, in a...”
– In “Kiss of the Underachiever,” Scott Garson “turns the familiar ‘desire in a bar’ story into something uniquely propelled by the sound of the words.” Greg Gerke reviews Is That You, John Wayne.
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“I never saw the photograph, but I saw my reflection in mirrors: amphibian, my...”
– So Raped by Megan Foley
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“I had just broken up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment in Oakland...”
– Links I Like by Zoë Ruiz
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“My gut is telling me it’s one of the better ones.”
– Ted Wilson Reviews The World #183. This week, Ted reviews a single grain of sand. It received 5 out of 5 stars.
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Watchamandamakesthings:
With only thirty minutes left until launch, thirteen-year-old Beatrice stirs up trouble in the freighter starship her mother pilots.
Written, directed, and edited by Amanda Gotera. Starring Nya Garner and Fazia Begum Rizvi.
This film was shot on 16mm Kodak 500T. All effects are practical.
If you watch one thing today, make this it.
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I’m not saying artists shouldn’t borrow from or quote or be influenced by other artists. On the contrary, this is often where great art begins. And I’m not even sure where I stand on the idea of originality. I’m speaking more of certain, often-changing trends in the arts: shortcuts and tired approaches that are overused, or not well-used, or not understood by the users, and yet somehow...
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“I want to write a nice long poem for all you straight girls.
Your religion’s...”
– An excerpt of A Poem for You by Ana Božičević. Her new book Rise in the Fall is reviewed today by Patrick James Dunagan.
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My first recorded journal entry is from 1998, when I was in third grade. It’s the only entry in the entire book, right there on the front page, transcribed after a muddy school field trip to Muir Woods. It begins:
When it rains the mushrooms magically appear! OR SO PEOPLE THINK. Banana slugs have eyes on their tentacles and tongues covered in teeth. They can smell a mushroom from THIRTY FEET...
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“There are peregrine falcons around now. We have them here in San Francisco, in...”
– The Rumpus Interview with Jon Mooallem, who has a new book: Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
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“A new species of clam being eaten by a new species of bird./ And there’s no new...”
– From “The Windows,” a poem in Paul Hoover’s Desolation: Souvenir, reviewed at The Rumpus by Robin Morrissey.
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Oxford Academic (OUP) on Tumblr: Trekkies: Are you... →
oupacademic:
The new Star Trek movie, Star Trek: Into Darkness, opens today and the trekkies in the office are psyched! And being good Star Fleet members, we know to explain the lingo to our non-trekkie friends over popcorn and luckily we have a few good dictionary editors at OUP to help out.
Senior Assistant Editor of the OED Matthew Bladen breaks down Star Trek’s impact on the English...
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“Everything I am is here still, sitting
with my grandfather on lawn chairs...”
– From ““Sitting on My Mother’s Porch in Westchester, Florida”, a poem in Richard Blanco’s Looking for the Gulf Motel, which was the last book of poems Sara Habein loved.
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Rookie: Rookie is hiring! We're looking for a... →
rookiemag:
The ideal person for this job has at least three years’ experience as a story editor (either in print or online) and knows the basics of copyediting and fact-checking. Rookie is a fast-growing but small operation; we work independently and remotely. Applicants should be very comfortable working from home, with minimal infrastructure and little management from the editorial team....
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“If you ask a parent about their son or daughter—if they want their kids to be...”
– Admit You’ve Paid For It: The Savage Honesty of David Henry Sterry
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“I think the whore-client relationship is very influenced by our childhoods, our...”
– The Rumpus Interview with Annie M. Sprinkle, the first of four interviews by David Henry Sterry with some of the contributing writers from his current anthology, Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Clients Writing About Each Other.
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