2012
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Erika Rae
“Currently, about 35% of our nation self-identifies as Evangelical…not wanting to understand the Evangelical culture in our current political climate is a bit like not wanting to understand, say, the Mexican-American community in the middle of the immigration debates.”
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Lit-Link Round-up
Lauren Cerand, Penina Roth, Michelle Orange and a host of interesting others make Flavorwire’s “50 Up-and-Coming New York Culture Makers.” Speaking of up-and-coming, the always-provocative Laura Bogart’s “The Curse of My Birthing Hips,” in Salon’s Body Issues series. On The…
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“To Keep Love Blurry” by Craig Morgan Teicher
Craig Morgan Teicher’s third collection To Keep Love Blurry calls attention to our formal and confessional roots in giants such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Frost. Teicher’s wife, poet Brenda Shaughnessy (after whom he titled his first collection…
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The Internet As Scarlet Letter
Though the Internet these days isn’t the Wild West it once was, there’s still plenty of vigilante justice going on, from the outing and firing of the man responsible for subreddits like /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots to Jezebel’s public shaming of…
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Printable Rock and Roll Holiday Cards
A collection of illustrated, rock and roll infused holiday cards.
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Major Mayan Side-Eye
There are about 7 million Maya living in Mexico and parts of Central America, and they’re pretty done with all this apocalypse hoopla. A wonderfully sardonic Reuters report elaborates: “It’s a date for doing business, but for me it’s just…
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Missing the Beat: The Story of Adapting Kerouac’s On The Road
In 1957, shortly after the publication of his second novel, On The Road, Jack Kerouac wrote a letter to Marlon Brando, pleading with him to buy the movie rights to the book.
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Donnell Loves Fran
If Omar was ‘one of TV’s greatest characters’ it was because of Donnie. The show distinguished itself by laying out a palimpsest of failed American institutions but even within that decentralized narrative Omar was singular because the outcome of his life,…
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Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy
In her new collection, Our Andromeda, Brenda Shaughnessy presents emotions at their most bare in experiences both familiar and alien—and alien sometimes in a literal sense as the speakers regularly shuttle to and from the Andromeda Galaxy, the galaxy closest…
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Saving Enoh Meymesse
Cameroonian writer and activist Enoh Meyomesse has been detained for thirteen months–including one month of solitary confinement–at Kondengui Central Prison in Yaoundé, despite the fact that he has yet to be convicted of anything. Meyomesse has authored several books and…
