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2011
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The Red Kool-Aid Professor: or, Why Some Girls Like Unicorns: or, How I Failed, and then Succeeded, to Review Poetry Books for The Rumpus
A few days ago when we woke up, my girlfriend told me this dream: she and her father were seated in a brown 1983 VW Rabbit, he driving, she in…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Facebook, Facebook, Facebook: Goldman Sachs restricts Facebook investments to overseas clients, Facebook offends with ridiculous language settings, and they still don’t give two bits about privacy unless users complain. Did you…
Smears and Stories
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III believes that David Simon’s hit HBO show The Wire serves as a “smear that will take [the city] decades to overcome.” David Simon…
Ukraine Kuriosas
Cover graphics from a book flea market in Lviv, Ukraine, courtesy of Ali at kuriosas:
FUNNY WOMEN #43: How Millennials Look for Jobs
You may have heard that us “millennials” are struggling to find jobs. It’s true. The unemployment wave is pushing us recent college grads into taking menial positions in restaurants, retail…
“What got you started?”
“Anger. I was unemployed, and had just spent a day feeling overwhelmingly disenchanted. In anger, I wrote a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page. And then I…
The Last Book I Loved: The Children’s Hospital
While reading The Children’s Hospital I could not sleep. When I did, the sleep was strange, extra-charged, heavy. After I finished, I started telling everyone to read it. I did…
Only Human
“For days after the birth Treadway knew there was a secret. He felt the secret exactly as he felt the presence of a white ptarmigan behind him in the snow,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is how some people choose to spend their time: cigarette ash landscape. By the same token: cotton candy room. Meanwhile, back in the 1930s, automatons engage in fisticuffs. In…