You Need More Sleep
“Now, new research is showing that sleep also seems to reorganize memories, picking out the emotional details and reconfiguring the memories to help you produce new and creative ideas, according…
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LaToya Jordan
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LaToya Jordan is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Thick-Skinned Sugar (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016. Her writing has appeared in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Mom Egg Review, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. Visit her at latoyajordan.com.
Best Outsider Fiction
“When I sat down to write this list, I realized that I would need to define what ‘outsider fiction’ was in the first place, a daunting prospect. I came up…
Figment Off to a Great Start
Figment, the new website for young adult readers and writers, was launched on December 6th and clocked in 4,000 subscribers on its first day. The site features a blog, forums,…
Absence of Diversity
“The tokens are out there, getting attention by the white reading public, but most black writers are writing for black readers and getting very little attention from mainstream outlets. Segregation…
Zombies in Higher Education
These aren’t the zombies you see in film: according to three Australian professors, the zombies of higher education are “a listless population of academics, managers, administrators and students, all shuffling…
Artists: Barter for Your Health Care
I am one of the lucky ones: a full-time desk jockey/part-time writer with health insurance. I recently finished up some physical therapy sessions for my right arm; the bill says…
8 under 18?
I’ve been reading lots of news lately about the literary community celebrating the “unders,” you know, the best 40 under 40, 5 under 35, or 30 under 30. These young…
Video Game Industry Attracts Writers
“‘You want to write a novel? Who’s going to read it? A bunch of people in grad school? Fuck that,’ Mr. Patrick said. ‘Everybody plays video games.’” (via Bookslut)
Don’t Read and Drive
“A motorist in Chatham was allegedly found reading while driving.” I know the feeling of not wanting to put a good book down. I was almost run over by a…
Men Come First
“…Romeo and Juliet. John, Yoko. See a pattern? We may have come a long way baby, but our female names still typically follow the man’s name.” — Scientific American on…
A Community of Book Movers
“Nearly 2,000 volunteers lined up on the Akoni Pule Highway on Saturday to form a human chain, so they could pass the thousands of books – or huki puke, in…