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Lauren O’Neal
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A Wild Excerpt from White Girls
Guernica has a lengthy excerpt up from White Girls, the genre-warping new collection of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and who knows what else by the New Yorker‘s Hilton Als. It’s complex, challenging, and completely, enthrallingly beautiful, so it’s impossible to choose…
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Taking Pictures of Street Harassers
Every woman—at least the ones living in big cities—has a response to street harassment, whether it’s flipping the catcaller the bird or ignoring him completely. Photographer Hannah Price’s reaction is different from most: she takes pictures of her harassers, sometimes…
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American Books by State
What book do you think of when you think of Georgia? How about Washington? Business Insider has a neato map pairing each of the fifty states with the most famous book set there. The two states above correspond to Gone with…
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Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce
Lauren O’Neal reviews Kelly Luce’s THREE SCENARIOS IN WHICH HANA SASAKI GROWS A TAIL today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #2: “Rid of Me”
“I very much wanted to write songs that shocked,” PJ Harvey recently told Spin about her early career. “All I wanted to do was shock with my artwork. When I wrote ‘Rid of Me,’ I shocked myself.”
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Longreads Starts Membership Drive
If you’re a fan of longform writing, fiction or nonfiction, consider subscribing to Longreads. They’re holding a membership drive to help keep the site going; you can choose between $3/month or $30/year memberships, both of which give you access to…
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New Members-Only Club in SF Raises Questions
Inside the Musto Building, a space in San Francisco’s Financial District that once housed a marble mill and a candy warehouse, a pair of Internet multimillionaires has founded a members-only club called the Battery. It includes a wine cellar, a spa, and a…
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American Adults Get Worse at Reading
Well, this is terrifying: The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey. What’s more, over the last two decades Americans’ reading proficiency has declined…
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What Makes a Good Editor?
In a conversation for the Slate Book Review, author Donna Tartt and her editor Michael Pietsch talk through the experience of editing her latest novel from both sides of the red pen. It’s a fascinating insight into the near-magical possibilities of…
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Book Release Party for Writing That Risks
When our extremely cool party with A Strange Object this Thursday ends, you can mosey over to “the book release party for Writing That Risks—an international anthology with a Left Coast sensibility.” Held at San Francisco’s Alley Cat Books, the party…
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“Life’s Not Like That for Others?”
For Tablet, Batya Ungar-Sargon profiles Tama Janowitz, who took the literary world by storm in the ’80s, then faded from view while contemporaries like Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis achieved more lasting success. Janowitz, whose “sentences sparkle, rife with…
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Writers’ Roaring Twenties
What were/are you doing in your twenties? If you’re F. Scott Fitzgerald or Zadie Smith, you were publishing groundbreaking novels. If you’re Jack London, you were losing teeth from scurvy in Alaska, which, you know, good for him. See what…