The Rumpus Interview with Annie Liontas
Annie Liontas talks about her debut novel Let Me Explain You, crafting voices, and the benefits—and occasional pitfalls—of returning to get an MFA after years of writing in the dark.
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November 2015
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Marginalized
Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? First, it keeps you awake — not merely conscious, but wide awake. Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and…
Holiday Specials from Murray and Carey
The season of holiday specials is upon us, and Stereogum reported on two that cover just about the entirety of what a person could want from a festive made-for-TV movie.…
How a Freelancer Prays
The writing life is hard, especially in the finance department and in the unstable nature of a freelancer’s status. Over at McSweeney’s, Marco Kaye writes a poignant representation of the inner…
Next Letter in the Mail: Melanie Simonich
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s a very special letter from Melanie Simonich! Melanie writes to us about her father, the moon, and a…
The Lessons of Mapplethorpe
It might be ill-advised to reduce an artist’s life and work to a single observation, the magic key that unlocks everything, but in the case of Robert Mapplethorpe there is…
Make Your Writing A Beautiful Mess
A lovely and thoughtful argument for writing with a pencil. Hear her out before you decide.
Spotlight: “Mind” by Colleen Louise Barry
"Mind" is an installment of the ongoing comic series Idiomatic from writer and artist Colleen Louise Barry.
Song of the Day: “Olivia”
To mark the anniversary of a late, great hip hop icon whose very name inspires controversy, XXL Magazine asked former members of the legendary rap group Wu-Tang to remember their friend, Russell Tyrone Jones, known otherwise…
Notable Portland: 11/19–11/25
Thursday 11/19: PQ Monthly holds it’s holiday issue release party with hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar with signature holiday drinks. Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, 5 p.m., free. Poetic…
The Enduring Ordinariness of Parisian Life
We’re defiant, but shaky. We can’t get over what we’ve seen, what we’ve heard, who we’ve lost, and we don’t really want to. But we’ll eventually get used to the…
The Ivy Halls of Racism
Larissa Pham writes about racism and Yale for Guernica: This tension is not new. It is a product of the systemic racism built into the institution, as ubiquitous as the…