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Lauren O’Neal
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“Nigeria Is Almost A Third Character In My Work”
Check out this slideshow of work by emerging artist and Studio Harlem alum Njideka Akunyili, who grew up in New Haven, Nigeria, and got her MFA at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. Packed with references to other Nigerian artists like author…
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Sports Writing Goes North
A long but magnificent read from Grantland: “Out in the Great Alone.” It’s an intense and unbelievably detailed story about the Iditarod, by Brian Phillips, a sports writer who “hate[s] snow” and is “not even a dog person.” Choosing a passage…
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Patrons and Propaganda
Michelangelo had the Medicis; Jackson Pollock had the CIA. It’s true—in order to ensure the US kept up with the Soviet Union culturally and artistically, the CIA funded abstract expressionist art, unbeknownst even to the artists themselves. Read more about…
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The Prettiest Cocoons You’ll Ever See
If magpies can nick our shiny objects for their own purposes, why not other animals? French artist Hubert Duprat puts jewels in the aquariums of caddis fly larvae, obliging them to build their cocoon-like sheaths out of materials like gold and…
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Fresh Air Win
On Tumblr, Fresh Air itself highlights the conversation between Martha Bayne and Zoe Zolbrod about Bayne’s Rumpus essay “Knocked Over: On Biology, Magical Thinking and Choice.” Bayne recorded a Fresh Air interview about the piece that—as you know if you’ve read the…
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“Living On Air”
Via the Poetry Foundation, Open Culture has a 23-minute experimental film by Sandra Lahire using audio of Sylvia Plath reading her poems aloud. Mixing images of Plath’s obsessions (ouija boards, horses, violent self-harm) with photographs of the poet and her work,…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Seth Fischer
The next Letter in the Mail, going out April 30, is from Seth Fischer! Seth is a Rumpus contributor and former editor as well as the founding editor of The Splinter Generation. His writing has appeared in publications like Pank and Guernica. “Notes from a…
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Best Essays Anthology to Feature Rumpus Writers
Awesome news! Megan Stielstra’s Rumpus essay “Channel B” will appear in The Best American Essays 2013, guest edited by our very own Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar). Seth Fischer’s “Notes from a Unicorn” will be listed as a notable essay. Congratulations…
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Radicalism 101
Via The Millions, radical publishing house Verso Books has put together a comprehensive undergraduate reading list. Running the gamut from Marx to Badiou, from Women’s Oppression Today to Racecraft, this collection of titles will interest anyone looking to learn more about the fundamentals…
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Organist Rocks Out
If you’re not already listening to the Believer’s new podcast, the Organist, don’t worry—there’s still time to catch up! The third episode, posted earlier this month, swings from hillbilly records to classic horror movies, hitting everything in between. It’s worth a…
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Welcome to the Clone Zone
Via Longreads, a Carl Zimmer story on his National Geographic blog about bringing lost species back from extinction. Dinosaurs are probably out of the question because their remains are too old to contain usable DNA, but according to “an expert on mammoth DNA at McMaster…
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Get Involved With A Blog About “Raising Good Citizens”
Do you have something to say about race and parenting and youth? Racialicious’s sister site Love Isn’t Enough is looking for writers, editors, and more! Details here.