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Keep Working, Keep Submitting

Electric Literature’s editor-in-chief Lincoln Michel released his debut collection of stories, Upright Beasts, earlier this year. For the Quivering Pen, Michel explores the challenges first-time authors experience in writing and…

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Spotlight: Kate Gavino’s “You! Me! Dancing!”

The end of a decade-long dance party turns into a reflection on anxiety, community, and pop songs.

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Music

Song of the Day: “So What?”

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is one of the most influential albums of all time, not just within the genre of jazz, but within the entirety of modern music. Perhaps the…

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Notable Portland: 11/5–11/11

Thursday 11/5: Chelsea Clinton hosts an official signing for her new book, It’s Your World. Powell’s City of Books, 5:30 p.m., free. Carrie Brownstein, codeveloper of Portlandia and musician from…

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Roxane Gay Wins PEN Center Award

Literary juggernaut, Rumpus Essays Editor Emeritus, and beloved Twitter person Roxane Gay won the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award. Gay told Lit Hub: “The freedom to write,” Gay…

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Lit Theorists for Babies

WOMAN: Peekabo! I see you! Peekaboo! I see you! BABY DERRIDA: How can another see into me, into my most secret self, without my being able to see in there myself?…

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The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

E.B. Bartels reviews The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya today in Rumpus Books.

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Gaitskill on Tolstoy

Mary Gaitskill wrote for the Atlantic on Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina and the complexities of personality: Everyone says Anna Karenina is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the…

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Comics

THE BINS: Perfectly

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Just in time for yesterday, let’s all take a look back at the discovery of King Tut. Very important dinosaur jaw-size news. A dream of a socialist Mars. On the…

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Sound Takes: Dark Bird is Home

He’s a poet, ambiguous and layered, a lyricist able to make listeners feel something they can’t always explain, what I believe a song worth listening to should do.

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Literary Fashion

“We’re so lonely in our processes,” July laughs of the plight of so many creative types, “that it’s just fun—like, ‘Wow, we get to email with each other!’ when usually…

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