2011
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Their Eyes Like Geodes
In She Returns to the Floating World, Gailey utilizes anime and other aspects of Japanese culture, such as its folklore and attitudes following The Bomb, as she puzzles through how to define “she.”
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Tupper’s Other Ware
Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, would have been 104 yesterday. This piece offers a glimpse of Tupper’s other inventions, complete with his own sketches. While it was those plastic containers that brought him success, his journals show a plethora of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ll be taking a break for the next two weeks so my band can go on tour, but I promise you you’ll be ok. Another day, another story about the Neanderthal’s demise. Another day, another abandoned German theme park. Seriously,…
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Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with Megan Boyle
On the evening of July 27 I interviewed Megan Boyle over gchat. Rather than prepare questions or focus on a specific topic, we used Wikipedia’s “random article” link to go to pages to generate content for our conversation.
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Magazines Everywhere
The economics of publishing a literary magazine reveal some inauspicious stats. Magazine editors have to stay crafty and constantly reinvent what it means to be innovative, just to survive. Even offering digital options as an alternative to print doesn’t guarantee…
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Chats with Random Men #15: Fakhir
Alina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men.
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The First ?
Does anyone else think the question mark is the most beautiful of all punctuation marks? Well, the very first question mark may have looked more like a colon. Discovered in Syriac manuscripts of the Bible from the fifth century, the…
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The Google Effect
This might seem obvious to many, but apparently there is now research behind the idea that smart phones, computers and the Internet are weakening our memories. According to this article, the phenomena is called the “Google effect” (which you can…
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Who Gets to Write the Review?
“The book review page is an odd cultural territory, often inhabited by such hybrid creatures — unlike their contemporaries in other disciplines, where the lines between critic and artist are more pronounced.” All readers are book critics, but disseminating literary…
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80s Difference
Looking back at 80s media, this video curated essay examines the meaning of difference in Miami Vice, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller, through the lens of author Mash Tupitsyn’s own coming of age. Reflecting on her motivations for identifying…
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Bradbury’s Form Flexibility
There are two Ray Bradbury classics (Something Wicked Comes This Way and The Martian Chronicles) that have been recently adapted into graphic novels and Bradbury is down. The graphic novel illustrations lend themselves well to Bradbury’s prose, and he even…