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Ian MacAllen
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Notable NYC: 6/27–7/3
Saturday 6/27: Alex Bedder, Julia Fierro, Bobby Finger, Haley Mlotek, Alanna Okun, Lauren Oyler, and Pilot Viruet join the Difficult to Name Reading Series. Brit Pack, 6 p.m., free. Monday 6/29: Joshua Cohen reads his newest epic A Book of…
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Printing Out All Humanity’s Knowledge
Wikipedia hopes to one day contain all of mankind’s (literally, mankind’s) knowledge in a singular repository. Artist Michael Mandiberg decided to create a hard copy and start printing out the online encyclopedia—all 7,600 volumes of it. The New York Times…
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A Very Busy Penis
E.L. James is releasing a new book for the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise. The latest iteration of the popular pornographic pulp fiction is told from the perspective of Christian Grey. And sometimes from the point of view of his…
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Notable NYC: 6/20–6/26
Saturday 6/20: Paige Taggart, Rickey Laurentiis, Jackie Clark, Dawn Raffel, Kait Heacock, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Naomi Extra, Kashana Cauley, Mensah Demary, Ryan Sartor, Mack Gelber, Tracy O’Neill, Niina Pollari, and many others join POPSICKLE 2015, the celebration of Brooklyn’s poetry communities.…
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Writers Must Read
Writers sometimes forget the importance of reading. Just about everyone who writes started out as a voracious reader, but working on the craft of writing ends up displacing time previously spent reading. Over at Dead Darlings, Kelly Robertson takes a look…
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Walking Boosts Creativity
The next time you feel stuck with writer’s block, try taking a walk. A Stanford study has shown that walking increases creativity over simply sitting, even when walking indoors on a treadmill.
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Rachel Dolezal: A Rumpus Roundup
Six months ago, Rachel Dolezal, an academic and the president-elect of NAACP Spokane chapter, wrote an op-ed piece piece describing the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter protest movement. On Monday, she resigned her post at the NAACP surrounded in controversy. Dolezal…
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Harsh Critics
Book reviews have grown nicer in recent years, with some publications eschewing negativity altogether. That wasn’t always the case. The earliest literary reviews were outright cruel, with publications trying to outdo their rivals. The Literary Review takes a look at…
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A Year Of Only Women
Men need not submit to small press And Other Stories this year, as the independent publisher plans on only printing women in 2018, reports the Guardian. And Other Stories prints 10 to 12 books a year. The decision was made…
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Notable NYC: 6/13–6/19
Saturday 6/13: Norte Maar reads Tobacco Hour. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Newtown Literary celebrate the launch of Issue 6. Queens Council on the Arts, 7 p.m., free. Erika Swyler, Ted Thompson, and Sarah Gerard join the H.I.P. Lit series along…
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A Memoir in Pictures
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Caroline Calloway’s new memoir is going to be extremely long. The England-based art history student has been writing a memoir through her Instagram account, mashing together photos, captions, conversations, and more. Unlike…
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Taking a Bath with Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen is making the rounds to promote his latest novel, Book of Numbers. A prolific book reviewer, Cohen is also already working on a fifth novel. At VICE, Thomas Morton decided to take a bath with Cohen to discuss…