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Weird and Grotesque and Disturbing: Talking with Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  • Mary Pauline Lowry
  • February 1, 2021
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: The Babble in the Bubble

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • December 19, 2017
To the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.
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#Betrayal: On Instagram, Is Hell Other Women?

  • MJ Corey
  • October 20, 2016
Instagram: an app powerful enough to blow a million Think Pieces to smithereens in everything it says about female relations.
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Extremely Fine and Incredibly Whatever

  • Theodora Messalas
  • October 14, 2016
Almost as notable as an artist’s work nowadays are the comments and speculative personas that arise around them on the Internet. Jonathan Safran Foer is something of a perfect storm,…
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Axl Rose Not Pumped on Fat Memes

  • Liz Wood
  • June 10, 2016
Axl Rose has issued Google a takedown notice regarding the “Fat Axl” meme, which uses a shot of the singer performing with Guns N’ Roses in 2010. The notice is operating on…
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