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Bryan Washington

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Bryan Washington has written for Puerto Del Sol, Ninth Letter, and Midnight Breakfast, among others; he's also the recipient of a Houstonia Fellowship. He lives around New Orleans.

Closet Gamer

At Vice, Jagger Gravning gives us a profile of Alexey Pajitnov—the man who subverted his KGB-era career, completely changed the interface of digital entertainment, and created Tetris, eventually, when he…
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Table Talk

At The Believer Logger, 14 writers sat down with Elisa Gabbert to talk reading, writing, reading without writing, writing in the midst of reading, willfully neglecting both, dutifully submitting to one…
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Final Tour

Phil Klay’s just won the National Book Award, and he talks with Rumpus Interviews Editor Emeritus Rebecca Rubenstein about the repercussions. They also hit on the burden of multiple voices, “entry points”,…
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Red Pen

At Slate, Katy Waldman gives us a montage of authors editing their work, decades after it’s been published: Fun fact: Three out of seven authors independently reference epic poetry. “What’s the…
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Blind Lie

Over at The New Republic, Hanna Rosin pens a piece on her buddy, Stephen Glass—former Republic colleague, one-time prodigy, and probably the most lucrative fabricator in recent journalistic history: I didn’t…
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