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Guia Cortassa

Guia Cortassa was born, lives, and works in Milan, Italy. After working as a Contemporary Art curator, she went back to writing. She is a contributing editor for Ondarock and her writing has appeared on Rivista Studio, Flair and the Quietus. She compulsively tweets @gcmorvern.
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    Short Revolution

    Great novels also experiment and innovate, but a short story can make a never-before-seen formal leap and then peace out, before you’re even sure what’s happened. At Electric Literature, Rebecca Schiff introduces us to the authors who have revolutionized the…

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    A Very Good Suggestion

    Elisa Abatsis took our advice and wrote like a motherfucker—head over to McSweeney’s to see what the results have been.

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    What’s in a Name?

    But as writers, what are we supposed to do if we have a super common name? Do we get a pen name? Do we find an SEO expert? Do we just kind of ignore the issue and hope our names…

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    A Major Poet of Quiet

    Keith Waldrop is a quiet major poet, a major poet of quiet. His accomplishment is difficult to describe because his work refuses, in Bartleby-like fashion, the twin traps of impassivity and affectation… Over at the Paris Review, Ben Lerner pens…

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    Learning the Special Way

    …one day she offered me an even better, bigger bribe: If I mastered all my writing skills and got up to speed on my classwork, I could write a play, which would be performed at school. For BuzzFeed Books, Charlie Jane…

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    The Others

    While Lani’s sole purpose in the book seemed to be a genderqueer Jiminy Cricket, pulling the wool back from Claire’s incredibly naïve eyes, they allowed me to look past the narrative I’d been told since birth. Over at Lit Hub,…

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    All About Eva

    She’s black, but not local, this new colleague who wears her boots and jeans and scarf with a bohemian aplomb that causes the others to ask her where she shops. “Oh, you know, thrift stores,” she says with a chuckle.…

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    DIY Presidents

    I believe in an activated, alkalized, adaptogenic, artisanal America, and I’m glad that I can count on your vote in this, that most authentic of experiences, the American Presidential Primary. Over at McSweeney’s, Summer Brennan pens the perfect artisanal presidential candidate’s…

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    Literary Misguidelines

    If you’re planning on submitting your manuscript to a literary agency, you might want to read Marcy Campbell’s updated guidelines over at Electric Literature first.

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    Sound Takes: Until I Live & Rumpus Video Premiere

    Featuring an exclusive video premiere from The National Parks and a review of their latest album Until I Die.

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    Consider the Weather

    These are not stories about the weather, these are stories about life and death. Over at the Ploughshares blog, E.V. De Cleyre considers the importance of weather in the works of Kathryn Schulz, Anthony Doerr, and Claire Vaye Watkins.

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    A Crucial Conversation with the Self

    For a black woman in a white world, a conversation with the self is crucial: for when she walks through that often-unwelcoming world she is subjected to confining perceptions of who she might be. When that world insists on racist…