Lincoln Michel‘s fiction has appeared in Granta, Oxford American, Tin House, NOON, Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, Bookforum, Buzzfeed, VICE, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. He is the former editor-in-chief of Electric Literature and a founding editor of Gigantic. He is the co-editor of Gigantic Worlds, an anthology of science flash fiction, and Tiny Crimes, an anthology of flash noir. His debut story collection, Upright Beasts, was published by Coffee House Press in 2015. He teaches fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. He was born in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn. He tweets at @thelincoln.
“Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, claimed staff had found a link between social networking sites and the spread of the bacteria, especially among young women.” A…
“Am I suggesting that music criticism is a pointless exercise? Yeah, I guess I am. In many cases it’s even worse than that. Because critics are, by their very job…
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“She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.” “It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power…
Jonah Lehrer laments a big problem with the social web: “The one shared feature that I’m most interested in is also a little disturbing: the tendency of the social software…
“(W)e must think of graduate school as more like choosing to go to New York to become a painter or deciding to travel to Hollywood to become an actor. Those…
“If “all the world’s a stage,” then the internet is where we rehearse our lines, sharpening our tongues for a chance at real life.” — Jimmy Chen over at GIANT…
“I think a lot of those people (protesting against the bill) today demonstrated this is not about health care. It’s about trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people…
Who doesn’t like bookplate porn? (via) The Rumpus doesn’t do pop culture, but if you happen to have written something about Lady Gaga, you might want to send it here.…