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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.
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Another Order

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 22, 2015
In an essay reprinted over at Longreads, Alexander Chee looks back on finishing his MFA, moving back to New York, and the interiority of class that cater-waitering allowed him to…
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Mis Documentos

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 22, 2015
Over at the New Yorker, James Wood chronicles Alejandro Zambra’s ascent in Latin American letters.
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Motion Picture Soundtrack

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 15, 2015
As it turns out, Aleksandar Hemon jams out to D’angelo, Grimes, and Fela Kuti; for the rest of the tunes the writer put on his playlist for The Making of Zombie…
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Ask, Tell

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 8, 2015
Rumpus contributor Matthew Salesses posts his first essay as Insight Editor for The Offing: a rumination on racial awareness in 2015.
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Unbearable Whiteness

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 8, 2015
Elisa Gabbert asks the hard questions for Electric Literature: When the VIDA counts come out and multiple publications are shown to publish far more men than women (with the numbers for POC…
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Urban Escape

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 3, 2015
Of course Zadie Smith’s written a science fiction epic, set on September 11, 2001, chronicling the haphazard relationship between Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, and Elizabeth Taylor. And of course it’s…
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Here and Afar

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 3, 2015
Over at WBUR, Radio Open Source calls their program “an American conversation with a global attitude.” The podcast touches on everything from first-reads with James Wood, to Knausgaard on literary…
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Nollywood in Vogue

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 3, 2015
Nearly a decade ago, Binvayanga Wainaina wrote an essay for Granta that changed his whole life. Now, he looks at the interior of African publishing, the landscape of literature on the continent,…
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Mulatto, Mulatto, Mulatto

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 1, 2015
At BuzzFeed, Mat Johnson breaks down the logistics of an oft-ignored, always tumultuous descriptor for multiethnic folks everywhere: I know that many people, they hear mulatto, and they think of…
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All-American Girl

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 1, 2015
Over at the Paris Review, Brit Bennett profiles the role, or lack thereof, of black dolls among Americans today: Of course, you can still buy racist dolls. Golliwogs—blackfaced rag dolls—are…
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Baby Horror

  • Bryan Washington
  • May 20, 2015
Over at Vice, Julian Morgans gets a hold of Tim Jacobus, the guy behind R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series’ book covers. Their conversation touches on prog rock, horror’s allure, and the literary…
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Infierno Completo

  • Bryan Washington
  • May 20, 2015
Sergio Pitol gets the profile treatment over at Lit Hub: Sergio Pitol (1933) is all of the above; he is, I believe, a total writer. And by writer I do not…
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