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The Chaka Crew
Soul icon Chaka Khan and her siblings Taka Boom and Mark Stevens have put out their first collaborative effort in the song “House of Love.” Listen to the track via Shaboom and read more about the collaboration at NPR.
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Advice for Writers Anxious of Rejection
I know of no level of success where writers stop getting rejected (and stop at least occasionally feeling bummed about it). People generally make more noise about publications than rejections, the same way people mostly share pictures of happy moments…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Robert Arellano
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Robert Arellano! Robert needs your help naming a giant, grimy teddy bear with a cigarette-burned eye. Subscribe and read Robert’s letter to learn the story behind the…
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Eating in Purgatory
I always say the last time was the last time, and I always mean it, but I’m scared I’ll relapse again.
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Song of the Day: “Berlin Got Blurry”
Strangeness is not altogether a new concept for Parquet Courts, a NYC-based band that resists labels but falls somewhere between garage rock and post-punk, with an overarching sympathy for “indie” (whatever that means today). The arty group have gained notoriety…
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Notable Portland: 4/21–4/27
Thursday 4/21: Join PQ Monthly for their April issue launch party. CC Slaughter’s, 5 p.m., free. Comma, a monthly reading series hosted by Broadway Books, welcomes local writers by Kim Stafford and Floyd Skloot for this month’s reading. Broadway Books,…
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National Poetry Month Day 21: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Four Long Years At Court I really miss the forest. And how I used to hide there with the Queen. I miss how we used to dance and how we’d run from Court.
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Tech Companies Profit While Writers Starve
Digital media companies are suddenly worried about declining ad revenue, and the venture capitalists funding these companies have also turned off the faucet of cash as they realize that success stories like BuzzFeed and Mashable are not the unicorns everyone…
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Allegheny Front by Matthew Neill Null
Micah Stack reviews Allegheny Front by Matthew Neill Null today in Rumpus Books.
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Poetry in Paradox
The title of experimentalist poet Rosmarie Waldrop’s new book, Gap Gardening (New Directions), is “classic Waldrop, a phrase that asserts its meaning by undoing itself,” writes Dan Chiasson for the New Yorker. Waldrop is among those who “track the nanotech of language,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Who doesn’t love a good street dog? Long lost color footage of David Attenborough’s first voyage (thanks great cool wonderful). Here’s your death defying Victorian balloonists story for the day. We all owe a deep gratitude to the World Instant…
