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Lauren O’Neal
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Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks!
Civil-rights activist Rosa Parks would have turned 100 today. Racialicious has a great post debunking some popular myths about her famous refusal to sit at the back of the bus: “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat…
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“A ‘Fuck You’ to Women Everywhere”
I can imagine complaining along these lines in an editorial meeting at a British publishing house, and being sighed at: “Yes, of course the 1960s cover is beautiful – I love it – but Waterstones and Tesco won’t stock it.” At the London…
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My Kingdom for a Better Burial Site
Richard III, whom Shakespeare portrayed as deformed and murderous, has been dug up not in a cathedral or mausoleum but underneath a parking lot. The BBC reports that after extensive research and DNA testing, archaeologists are sure “beyond reasonable doubt”…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you skipped the Rumpus this weekend to watch the Super Bowl (who wouldn’t after reading J. Ryan Stradal’s guide for people who don’t know about football?), here’s what you missed. A gorgeous Yumi Sakugawa comic called “Of Light.” Another…
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Radioactive Mongolian Dinosaurs and the People Who Love Them
Here are some subjects with which this (extremely long) New Yorker article concerns itself:
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Why Celebrity Gossip Is Actually Kind of Important
Here’s something to look forward to: Anne Helen Petersen’s “Scandals of Classic Hollywood” column, which we blogged about previously, is becoming a book! If you simply can’t wait for the publishing-industry process to put that book in your hands, you…
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Fifty Nifty United States with New Names and Equal Populations
The Electoral College’s credibility may have taken a blow a few years back, but Neil Freeman has a plan to fix it: simply redistrict the entire country so that all fifty states have the same amount of people in them.…
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The Family Who Fled Civilization to Live in Siberia
This Smithsonian article has been pinballing around the Internet, and for good reason. It tells the story of a team of Russian geologists who went to remote Siberia in 1978 and stumbled upon a family who had been living there for…
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How to Submit
For whatever reason, this austere paper system works better for me than others, which says more about how my mind works than it does about Excel spreadsheets. Maybe I’m projecting, but no matter your system, if you’re a submitter, two…
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And In Some Perfumes Is There More Delight
You know what Ernest Hemingway looked like and what his writing sounded like—but what did he smell like? Inspired by a perfume on Etsy called “Dead Writers,” Book Riot’s Amanda Nelson imagines scents named after various canonical authors. Our favorites…
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Kissa Yoni Ka: What The Vagina Monologues Mean In Hindi
As reports of the utterly horrifying rape and death of a woman in Delhi have made clear, India, like most countries, can be a dangerous place for women. In a guest post for Racialicious, Hannah Green uses an Indian performance…
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Some Things To Remember While You’re Writing
“There is no shame in writing slow. Your writing takes as long to develop as it takes. Writing is not a race.” Click through to read this and other gentle reminders about writing from Roxane Gay. You’ll feel better about…