2015
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Weekly Geekery
Using your English degree while coding. One foot in the real world, one foot in a story. A return to blogging? Or just marketing. Could robots be Renoir?
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History for the Layman
Electric Literature’s Dan Sheehan interviews Eagles Prize finalist DW Gibson, whose recent book The Edge Becomes Center explores the gentrification of New York City neighborhoods through the oral histories of those who experienced it firsthand: I wanted to find a way to…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
The Canadian bookstore that discovered a hundred-year-old photo album has solved the mystery of the photos’ origin. They belonged to an Edmonton man born in 1919. San Francisco is a city filled with bookstores, and SF Weekly takes a look…
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A Language By Any Other Name
“Conlang” is short for “constructed language,” which is just what it sounds like: a language that has been constructed… conlanging is an art as well as a science, something you might do for your own pleasure, as well as for…
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Multiply Divide by Wendy Walters
Jacob Bacharach reviews Multiply Divide by Wendy Walters today in Rumpus Books.
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A Gold Medal Approval Rating
For Hyperallergic, Allison Meier takes a look at the image management of Louis XIV’s reign as told through the medium of elaborate and intricate medals that traveled across late 17th and early 18th century Europe. On display at the British…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all take a journey inside the world of AOL disk collecting. Important questions: why don’t elephants get more cancer? Photographing New York’s 1970s lunch culture. Off-season Chinese amusement parks are also cool thing to photograph. Notes toward a theory…
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Michael Broder
If I am a sub poet, is poetry as a genre my dom? Is the particular poem I’m working on my dom?
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Baffling Perfection
The business of classics being perfect books is baloney. They are as defective, as inadequate as everything else in the universe. Careful readers see these flaws as reflections of their own frailty. Ilan Stavans, a man known for his love…
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Reporting as Literature
Reporter and writer Svetlana Alexievich recently won the Nobel Prize for literature. In a piece for the New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch brings up some questions that this poses about the relationship between reportage literature and other forms—is one more necessary or relevant in…
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Stealing Documents and Memory
Travis McDade writes for Lit Hub on the theft of primary source documents from libraries and how the precarious state of our archives affects our nonfiction narratives and memory.
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Obama Offers Kanye Campaign Advice
President Barack Obama appeared at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater this weekend, and took the opportunity to give Kanye West, who was performing later in the night, some advice for his potential 2020 campaign. Read…