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Caroline Kangas
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“First of all, I can stop competing with Jonathan Franzen”
We love our Funny Women, and Jezebel does, too! They’ve republished Elissa Bassist’s satire, “Writing the Next Great American Woman’s Novel.” But you saw it here first.
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The Golden Age of GIFs
“I mean, surely not every human emotion can be rendered in a few dozen repeated, low-resolution images. And yet…” Recently, A.D. Jameson asked the question “Are Animated GIFs a Type of Cinema?” Landon Palmer continued the conversation, and now even…
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Unexpected Poetry
What if, instead of crude, crass graffiti, walls were painted with poetry? This reality has already started in Camden, New Jersey where words from Sonia Sanchez’s poem “Ballad” were printed on the face of a rundown, boarded up building. On…
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The Wind-Up [Marathon] Chronicle
Only once you’ve climbed the steep slope and emerged onto level ground do you begin to feel how much you’ve been hurting up till then. Haruki Murakami, author of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, who has…
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Mein Führer, the Vegetarian
“Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him—that’s why he had fifteen girls taste the food before he ate it himself.” The Associate Press reports the story of ninety-five year old Margot Woelk. She was the only one of…
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“so I took a deep breath and I jumped”
Roxane Gay isn’t just for adults. Rookie Mag’s online issue, currently themed “Age of Innocence,” just posted the new(ish — the original was published in Prairie Schooner) beautiful story on teenage love and two different “first” times. So far the…
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“Translation is the art of losses”
It’s probably no surprise that a group of translators would be masters of language. Last week, the new Center for Literary Translation was opened in Trinity, Ireland. The Irish Times interviewed a few of the translators there for the event (Hungarian…
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Introducing (finally): the Digital Public Library of America
The site is live but DPLA appears to just be the beginning. An idea almost three years in the making, imagined first by the leaders of 42 of America’s top libraries and research institutions has now come to fruition. The Atlantic asked the…
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“A best selling caricature”
The stage was set: CUPSI 2013, College National Poetry Slam Finals, Barnard College, April 6th. Rachel Rostad performed her piece “To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang,” which addresses the stereotyping of Asian women in Western art: “Let me cry over boys…
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Animal Kingdoms
“Before kittens ruled the Internet, puppies reigned in print.” Slate provides an in-depth investigation into the classic dog vs. cat battle through competing media. On one hand, the puppy print preference seems to come from getting into the heads of…
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Happy Birthday, Marguerite!
Two Marguerites share this day as their birthday. Marguerite Duras, who said, “When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life,” was born today in 1914. Also born today in 1928 was Marguerite Ann Johnson, better known…
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A Day in the Journalistic Life
The life of a writer is rarely depicted as glamorous. We do it because we must. But sometimes we also must do other things like eat, and pay for shelter over our heads, or support those dependent on us. In…