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Origins of the “Fantasy North”
E.R. Truitt writes for Aeon on the long history of the “Fantasy North,” the lands, people, and culture at the top of the world that have fascinated pop culture for centuries. Truitt also marks the points in history when the…
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Ben Lerner’s First Time
If you’re referring to a bomb as a daisy cutter it’s easier to distance yourself from the embodied reality of the consequence of a policy. The Paris Review talks with Ben Lerner about his first book of poems, The Lichtenberg…
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Police Boycott Beyoncé’s Formation Tour
In a bid to epically miss the point, select police unions are protesting Beyoncé’s “Formation” video and Super Bowl performance due to the artist’s use of imagery comments on police brutality. The Tampa Police Benevolent Association has issued a statement encouraging all union members…
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Worldbuilding, Novelbuilding
I have an impression that I write novels and then I publish the structure of those novels. There are missing Legos in that castle. And I like that. You must open a space for the reader. For Vol. 1 Brooklyn,…
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Next Letter for Kids: Dan Gutman
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Dan Gutman! Dan writes us a very funny letter bursting with color and photos! He tells us all about where he lives, where he writes, what he likes to do for fun, and…
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February 25th, 1956
… met, by the way, a brilliant ex-Cambridge poet at the wild St. Botolph’s Review party last week; will probably never see him again… but wrote my best poem about him afterwards—the only man I’ve met yet here who’d be…
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/22–2/28
Monday 2/22: Ethan Canin discusses and signs A Doubter’s Almanac. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Amy Shira Teitel discusses and signs Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 2/23: Cornell…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Brandon Hicks mocks the electoral process in his illustrated narrative, “God Is Dead: Campaign Coverage.” Then, in the Saturday Essay, Kade Walker remembers her grandmother, a private woman of Jamaican descent who is too proud to tell her family she…
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Harper Lee’s Life and Work
Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, passed away on Friday. William Grimes remembers her life and work for the New York Times: Looking back on her childhood as a precocious tomboy, Scout, the narrator, evokes the sultry summers and simple pleasures…
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Daniel Larkins reviews From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor today in Rumpus Books.
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The Eden of the Surveillance State
Participation in our own surveillance was the price of entry into heaven. In the Winter 2016 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Amanda Power writes on the history (real and mythological) of the Western surveillance state, whose roots can be found in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In the end aren’t we ALL just 43 giant presidential busts rotting in a field? Getting harder and harder to keep this thing from being political, but in honor of JEB, Politico has a good roundup of America’s greatest political…