redemption
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Song of the Day: “Hurt”
“I hurt myself today,” Johnny Cash sings in one of the last recordings he made, his poignant cover of the Nine Inch Nails song, “Hurt.” The song couldn’t be more appropriate now, during this week of confusion and heartache and regret.…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins
The more narratives that approach reality “differently” get treated as “insane” or “unreal,” the less readers are exposed to them, and the more “unreal” or “insane” they seem. It’s like a feedback loop.
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Never Change
The LA Review of Books talks with Meghan Daum about her wildly successful new essay collection, The Unspeakable, catharsis, and redemption (or the lack thereof): I think what tends to be truly unspeakable in our current culture is not when…
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Of Bacon and Transgression
On The Butter, Syed Ali Hader writes about his complicated relationship with pork: I thought I would be found out. It was in my hair, my nails, and sweating through my pores. Surely my parents could smell it on me.…