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Bryan Washington
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A Declaration of Independence
Over at Collectors Weekly, Lisa Hix delivers a history of the American hobo.
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Didn’t Know a Thing
BOMB Magazine continues its Oral History project: a collection of oral biographies about New York City’s African-American artists. This week, Alteronce Gumby’s subject is Stanley Whitley: Stanley told me once, “There are many art histories … and many art worlds.” The more I…
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Burning Brightly
Over at Narratively, Anthony Taille takes us on a walk through Pennsylvania mining town Centralia, after the fire that tore it apart.
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Oh, Say Can You See
Luke Mogelson delivers some short fiction at the New Yorker, about a National Guardsman down on his luck.
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Always Part-Time
Over at KUOW, Sherman Alexie chats about why The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian just can’t stop getting banned.
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Broken Beauty
Way back in February, Chris Arnade penned a piece on his relationship with street addict Beauty. After months of ups and downs, the two came to a reconciliation, and Arnade ended up driving Beauty back to her mother’s place in…
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Speak for Yourself
Over at the New Yorker, Salman Rushdie looks back on an evening with Gunter Grass; they drank Schnapps, punked journalists, and had the best birthday party ever.
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Citizens United
Nick Laird takes a long look at Claudia Rankine for the New York Review of Books: When we march under one banner for different causes, when we gather many different cases under the title “Black Lives Matter,” for example, simplification…
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Lagos, Revisited
Alexis Okeowo expounds on Lagos for Granta—where it’s been, where they’re going, and why it’s future, our future, is dependent on its progress.
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Where We’re Going, Where We’ve Been
Literary Hub has posted a gem of an essay from Saul Bellow; he riffs on literary tropes, the trajectory of the novel, and how, even if it’s gotten close, it’s never actually dying: We know that science has a future, we hope…
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Those Kinds Of People are The Only People Here
Electric Literature posts a graduation speech from Vonnegut; he riffs on World War II, busboys, ambition, and suicide notes: A young woman told me a couple of years ago that she had applied for admission here. The man who interviewed…