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Lauren O'Neal

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Lauren O'Neal is an MFA student at San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in publications like Slate, The New Inquiry, and The Hairpin. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureneoneal.
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On Loving the Art of a Problematic Artist

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 27, 2013
In early 2010, I came within a hair’s breadth of securing a rare interview with Morrissey myself, but he ultimately backed out. It was disappointing, because I had planned…to ask…
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New Fiction Confab on 4/13

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 27, 2013
Texas readers, this year’s New Fiction Confab in Austin looks completely irresistible. There will be talks with writers like Sam Lipsyte, Susan Steinberg, and Rumpus Book Club author Manuel Gonzales; creative-writing…
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No More Room for “Whom”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 26, 2013
Via The Millions, an Atlantic blog post on the death of “America’s least favorite pronoun”: the dreaded “whom.” It always feels like society is crumbling when big linguistic changes occur,…
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Sinful Bookmarks and Western Prejudice

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 26, 2013
What is it like, in post-Tahrir Cairo, to run a bookstore or a publishing house? What is it like to be a reader or a writer? For Poets & Writers, Stephen…
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Supreme Court Gay Marriage Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 26, 2013
You may have noticed that all your Facebook friends are now the same person, and that person is a pink equals sign on a red background. That’s because they support…
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Faulkner Goes Postal

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 26, 2013
Take a look at William Faulkner’s resignation from his postmaster job, which appears at Letters of Note: As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have…
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Happy Baby Shoutout!

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 26, 2013
A big thank you to Maud Newton for shouting out the Happy Baby movie in the New York Times Magazine. Fun fact from her blurb: “[Stephen] Elliott accidentally sent the chapters out of…
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From “Beef-Witted” to “Zafty”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 25, 2013
The lists of obscure vocabulary passed around among word nerds can get kind of repetitive (we all know what “schadenfreude” means by now, thanks very much), but this one from Death and…
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“We Should Revere Him Better“

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 25, 2013
A fantastic essay at The New Inquiry inspects the recently deceased Chinua Achebe’s place in the Western literary canon. In an interview a few years ago, Norman Rush was talking about the ways he was…
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Can You Tell A Story Without Conflict?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 25, 2013
Conflict: a story needs one. It’s advice you hear in every creative-writing class, and a technique you see in every book, movie, and TV show. But what if a plot…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 25, 2013
Some Rumpus weekend highlights to brighten up your Monday: Wendy C. Ortiz interviews Eloise Klein Healy—the first poet laureate of Los Angeles and “who I wanted to be when I…
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Cross-Culture, Cross-Century Cross-Dressing

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 22, 2013
At the intersection of Eastern and Western culture, male and female, past and present, lies a rich and bewildering confluence of identities. Chan-Hyo Bae explores that nexus in his photography…
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