April 2014
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The Saints of Streets by Luisa Igloria
Christian Anton Gerard reviews (in epistolary form) Luisa Igloria’s The Saints of Streets today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Twitter, Unplugged
Writing from Turkey, a country that temporarily unplugged Twitter to quell government protests, novelist and essayist Kaya Genç describes the experience of disconnecting from the service. Instead of the liberation he expected, the lack of Twitter left him feeling like a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why don’t we all live in Arctic City? (Maybe someday we will all live in Arctic City.) Here come the bio-engineered vaginas! News item: beaked whales dive hella deep dudes! The art of Kurt Vonnegut. From courtship to marriage, 1890s…
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Devout Apostrophes
This week, the Paris Review has a really beautiful interview up with the poet Mary Szybist. She talks about religion, Wallace Stevens and her abiding love for the apostrophe: I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out…
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The Language of Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Month, we are taking time to consider how poetry makes us better readers of all different types of literature. George Quasha suggests that learning to read poetry is akin to learning to speak a new language:…
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Working Girls of Laura Jean Libbey
Katja Jylkka, writing over at The Toast, looks at the working girl novels of Laura Jean Libbey—19th century love stories featuring “innocent,” “bewitching” heroines. Though these pretty young women were able to attract “the wolfish attention of every male in…
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The Rumpus Interview with Zachary Lazar
Writer Zachary Lazar chats about his newest novel, I Pity The Poor Immigrant, as well as following trails, writing books that are “accidentally Jewish,” and the benefits of becoming a crime writer.
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Literature, Meet Video Games
Over at The Millions, Maxwell Neely-Cohen argues that video games and literature have more in common than we think. Moreover, he suggests that the two genres could benefit significantly from working together: We should be making novels into video games,…
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The Microphone on the Radio Tower
Marina Keegan died in a car accident just five days after she graduated from Yale University. But her writing lives on, and lends an empathetic voice to the often tedious discussions of millennials. From her posthumous essay, “Song for the special,”…
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National Poetry Month Day 10: “11 February 2004 / Buffalo” by Jessica Smith
11 February 2004 / Buffalo –Jessica Smith
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A Box Full of Old Emails
We know many people collect old letters, especially from loved ones who have passed, but what about old emails? What will happen to our electronic footprint after we are gone? And should we care? NPR’s All Things Considered investigates the…
