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Taking Students Seriously
Roxane Gay, over at The New Republic, on student activism: In the protests at Mizzou and Yale and elsewhere, students have made it clear that the status quo is unbearable. Whether we agree with these student protesters or not, we…
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Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott
Amy Pence reviews Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott today in Rumpus Books.
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Poetry’s Love Affair with the Internet
We already knew that the Internet is a wild and wonderful place for poets, but the web is also empowering verse offline. The New York Times reports on how the Internet is vaulting poetry onto the bestseller list, and we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day another most important exoplanet yet. Frank Gehry’s unbuilt NYC. Meanwhile, in unbuilt London, straightening the Thames. Here’s some Canadian shipwreck porn for you. It remains mindblowing that it’s time for serious ethical conversations about bringing back extinct animals.
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A Dying Art: Carrie & Lowell and Elegiac Practice
Elegy cannot protect us. It is merely a contained space for us to prowl, and to prowl in a performative manner.
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The Joy of Writing
In an exclusive interview with Authorlink, Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants and At the Water’s Edge, talks about research in fiction, story arcs, and the sheer love of writing: I find inspiration everywhere. Some of the snippets of conversation,…
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Libraries Aren’t Just About Books
For Slate, Jacob Brogan suggests that despite “shrinking book racks,” libraries play an important political and social role. This is particularly true in low-income areas, as libraries provide computer access for job searchers and entrepreneurs: Libraries are powerful precisely because they’re…
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Help Bjork Save Iceland’s Headlands
In conjunction with the Heart of Iceland organization, Bjork is calling for an eleven-day global protest against international efforts to build power lines that would facilitate a plan to transport energy from Iceland’s volcanos to England. Read more about the…
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Latest Salvo in Genre War
David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, has been nominated for both “literary” and “genre” awards, putting him in a somewhat unique position to comment on the ever-raging literary vs. genre war: “It’s convenient to have a science…
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War Narratives #4: Meet the Civilians
Each character achieves independence in his own way, but independence winds up looking a lot like loneliness.
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Love Letters and the Long Con
This is a story is about a con that unfolded very slowly over two decades. When the con was finally exposed, some of the victims defended the people who had been fooling them. They preferred to believe the lie. NPR’s…
