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National Poetry Month Day 5: Tiffany Midge
Tweets as Assigned Text for a Native American Studies Course Selected Tweets of @TiffanyMidge
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Beijing’s censorship crackdown on bookstores is being extended to Hong Kong’s airport. India Today looks at six must-see bookstores from across India. Take a look inside 2nd & Charles, the rapidly expanding used bookstore from Books-A-Million.
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The Loss of All Lost Things by Amina Gautier
Leland Cheuk reviews The Loss of All Lost Things today in Rumpus Books.
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The Literary Hustle
Even after authors finish writing their book, they have plenty of work to do to promote it. With so many books and limited space in media outlets, the literary hustle is a major part of any book launch. Over at…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sleep Labs of the Soviet Empire. Underwater baby kites I guess is a good parenting solution. A brief history of paper marbling. It’s about time that NASA sent a bouncy house into space. Here’s your petri dish art for the…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Primal Talk
One of the thrills of being a writer is becoming aware of the wildness that percolates inside of you. If you’ve learned to listen, you’re able to hear it.
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The Singular They
For the New York Times, Amanda Hess gives us a brief history of the increasingly prominent and ambiguously-gendered singular they, from usage in Shakespeare to Girls and The Argonauts.
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Wandering the Halls of Someone Else’s Mind
Amber Sparks considers the popularity of Instagram, and why it is so loved: It offers us the opportunity to wander the halls of someone else’s mind, to enjoy their obsessions and juxtapositions. It’s a really weird-ass place if you spend…
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Reboot the Arc of Progress
At the Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance delves into the popular belief that technology naturally bends towards equality and progress to show how rarely that idea actually plays out.
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Like It’s Still 1999
Veruca Salt has released a video from their latest album that sounds, and looks, a whole like nothing has changed since 1999, the year their song “Volcano Girls” appeared in the self aware tube-top masterpiece that is Jawbreaker. This is a…
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R.I.P.: Fantastic Casket
As far as the market right now, this is the moment to own it on caskets because we have the baby boomer generation coming up, and they’re doubling the number of deaths that are happening.