2011
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Songs of Our Lives: Simon & Garfunkel’s “America”
It’s Christmas morning, 2001 and I’m fifteen. I unwrap a record player, but am more immediately captivated by the record collection that comes with it.
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O Circular Philosopher
The field is integral, too, to Dan Beachy-Quick’s Circle’s Apprentice—the field of vision, field of the empty page and of the populated page, field of self/ body/maker, absence of field. It is from these fields that Beachy-Quick enters into a…
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New YA Literary Magazine
A new young adult literary magazine will be introduced in 2012. Each issue of One Teen Story “will feature one amazing short story about the teen experience.” A contest will determine the story for the final issue of the year.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
But what if there isn’t any Higgs boson? Have I mentioned lately that I love World’s Fairs? Post-Soviet Street Art. Fine, I’ll post the new Apple campus designs, happy now? Houdini’s rider is a pretty cool thing to see.
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Packaging and Nationhood
Here’s a reflection on nationhood through the lens of bilingualism, product packaging, and mixed vegetables. “The French and the English cannot be made to say exactly the same thing, not even in the blunt, literal language of generics. And this…
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Azu Nwagbogu Interview
Guernica interviews Lagos Photo Festival founder Azu Nwagbogu about the goals of the festival, and the growth of photography as a social tool in Nigeria. “The problem of Africa really is the Afro-pessimism, where we show the hopelessness of the…
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On The Precipice
In this Bomblog piece, Sarah Gerard ruminates on choice, relationships, Occupy, and existentialism while taking a closer look at Alexander Maksik’s You Deserve Nothing (which you can find Rumpus reviewed here). “Choice is separate from anguish, from desire, from will,…
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Talks with Teachers #2: The Idea of Duality
In 2005, before Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the New Orleans public education system was one of the worst in the nation.
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On Persecuting Porn Performers
“We don’t know why porn stars should not teach children, why it’s OK to watch porn but not be in it, why we should have to hide our involvement in pornography, or why we should be ashamed of it. These…
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Dagoberto Gilb Interview
ZYZZYVA interviewed Dagoberto Gilb, acclaimed author and the current executive director of Centro Victoria: Center for Mexican American Literature and Culture. Gilb touched on the Texan literary scene, Latino literature, and his newly published collection of stories, Before the End, After…
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Guantánamo Diary
“They started taking detainees away every night, by groups of twenty. We didn’t know where they were going to, but we thought the US. One day, it was my group’s turn. The Pakistanis took away our chains and gave us…
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Best Music Writing Goes Indie
Do you love the Best Music Writing series as much as we do? Series Editor and music critic extraordinaire Daphne Carr has just announced that the venerable annual collection will no longer be published by Da Capo Press, so she’s…