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Sesame Street‘s Tribute to Phife Dawg
Elmo has stepped up to pay tribute to A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg, who passed away on March 22nd from complications relating to diabetes. Watch the red fuzzball show his respect after the jump.
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This Week in Short Fiction
As the stump speeches and primary dates continue to roll on and thousands of Americans develop stress ulcers, Darcey Steinke delivers a humorous and terrifying vision of our dystopian future should Donald Trump win the presidential election. “The Blue Toes,”…
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Next Letter for Kids: Ellen Wittlinger
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Ellen Wittlinger! Ellen writes about the summer she left the Midwest and become a California girl! She tells us all about the great summer she spent with her Uncle Walt and everything she learned from him. Don’t…
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Strands
The self was attacking the self. My body was blaming itself: it didn’t matter how many times I said or anyone else said, “It isn’t your fault.” I believed it was.
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Toni Tennille’s Tell-All
Toni Tennille’s memoir dropped at the start of the month. Jamie Blaine interviews the squeaky-clean singer about possible subtext in her music, among other things: I didn’t say do it to me one more time! Okay, people can think what…
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Notable Chicago: 4/22–4/28
Friday 4/22: Uncharted Books welcomes Caroline Macon. 7 p.m. Annalise Raziq, Cameron Gearen, Kate Ingold, and Rita Pyrillis read for There’s a You I Miss at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m. Saturday 4/23: Head to Everybody’s Coffee and The Book…
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Dead Man’s Float by Jim Harrison
Denise K James reviews Jim Harrison’s Dead Man’s Float today in Rumpus Poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 22: Hayan Charara
The Problem with Me (Beginning with Abu Ghraib) Is the Problem with You (Ending Where the Earth’s Surface Appears to Meet the Sky) A dog outside is barking loudly. Inside, everything is quiet. I said I would not, but here…
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The Literary Value of Hip-Hop
At Electric Literature, Mensah Demary argues that there should be greater appreciation of hip-hop as a powerful storytelling medium, positing Nas as a master of literary narrative: If presented with a choice, I’d rather discuss classic hip-hop albums than short…
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12 Lol-Worthy Gifs That Will Recuperate Feminist Praxis
Bitch is where many of today’s feminist internet denizens (yours truly included) got our start reading and writing about culture with a critical eye. In many ways, Zeisler’s book is a call to arms, asking us to return to a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Finally answering the important questions: how are you even supposed to say 2016? The rise of the pirate library. Here’s your retro, white-privilege explaining board game for the day. Very important young dinosaur news. The world needs more Soviet river…
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The Rumpus Interview with Charles Bock
Charles Bock discusses his new novel, Alice & Oliver, the challenges of writing from experience, and how art and life can mirror one another.