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I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Eileen Myles’s I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Softer Side of the Church of Satan
Throughout the Panic, one group was turned to again and again as the best evidence that the Devil had droves of organized followers: the Church of Satan. Read an excerpt from The Believer‘s interview with the High Priest of the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Every bit of new dinosaur news bring my worst fears closer and closer to reality. Today’s nightmare of the day is finding giant tapeworm cancer in your brain. Architectures of the afterlife. On a similar note: the failed therapeutic architecture…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta talks about her debut novel, Under the Udala Trees, her upcoming appearance at Portland’s Wordstock book festival, and LGBTQ rights in America and worldwide.
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Medicinal Literature
Electric Literature posted a conversation with author Sandra Cisneros, in which she talks about books and their healing power, and the importance of poetry today: This is a time for poetry. Poets are the ones who are always called to speak the…
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On Writing While in Prison
Over at Hazlitt, Sarah Gerard interviews Matthew Seger, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison, and reveals what it’s like to keep up a writing discipline behind bars: Before, if I wanted to write something down, I’d scribble…
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Dave Davies on Inspiration
The Kinks’s Dave Davies took a minute out of his Ripping Up New York City tour to talk to LA Record about inspiration. “It’s a kind of process—I find melancholery really really useful,” Davies said. “It’s a way of remembering…
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Next Letter for Kids: Jenny Lundquist
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jenny Lundquist! Jenny writes to us about her childhood when she was painfully shy and about one particular incident when she was bullied and how as an adult she used that experience to write…
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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 submitting their work to publishers: It would be nice here…
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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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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 most highly recognizable song on the album, “So What?” was written…
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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 Sleater-Kinney, reads from her memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern…