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June 2012
286 posts
“Push Me, Pull You”
“A lot of the walls protecting the singular author are coming down. It’s much easier to engage in back and forth with other writers and come to the realization that…
Letters to Everyone
GalleyCat gave some love to our Letters to Everyone program. Thanks, GalleyCat! Today is the final day to send in your letter (and get five back)! All the details you…
“Not Where They Hoped They’d Be”
The Atlantic captures photographs of graduates who have been unable to find a job in their fields of study and now find themselves in underpaid service sector jobs. “From a…
The Moth Magic
“Each time I listen to a story told aloud, and feel that direct connection with the teller, I am reminded of what a story, well told, can do.” Nathan Englander…
Madame X by Darcie Dennigan
Madame X pilots the idea that the line between reality and dream is not so much collapsible as it is meant to be collapsed.
The Last Book I Loved: Storming the Gates of Paradise
Three years ago, I bought Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, on a lark. At that time I was beginning to write, trying to…
Tourney of Bookshit
HTML Giant‘s Tournament of Bookshit, now six months deep into its hilarious ramble, has just announced its Final 4: Semi #1 – Alcoholism vs. “everybody has a story”, judged by…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe the cave painters were Neanderthals. Plants are talking about you behind your back. Great Titan’s lake! A year inside a 10 year’s old pocket. Let’s all look at Beunos…
What Do We Call It?
Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown used the word “vagina” while speaking on the House floor yesterday against a bill restricting abortions. Scandalized House Republicans still aren’t over it: Brown was…