Time Interviews Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed talks with Time about Wild, Dear Sugar and Tiny Beautiful Things, how the Pacific Crest Trail has changed since 1995, current projects, and more. “My intent was—stories, poems,…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
“Push Me, Pull You”
“A lot of the walls protecting the singular author are coming down. It’s much easier to engage in back and forth with other writers and come to the realization that…
Letters to Everyone
GalleyCat gave some love to our Letters to Everyone program. Thanks, GalleyCat! Today is the final day to send in your letter (and get five back)! All the details you…
“Not Where They Hoped They’d Be”
The Atlantic captures photographs of graduates who have been unable to find a job in their fields of study and now find themselves in underpaid service sector jobs. “From a…
The Moth Magic
“Each time I listen to a story told aloud, and feel that direct connection with the teller, I am reminded of what a story, well told, can do.” Nathan Englander…
What Do We Call It?
Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown used the word “vagina” while speaking on the House floor yesterday against a bill restricting abortions. Scandalized House Republicans still aren’t over it: Brown was…
Love Under Empire
Triple Canopy excerpts Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, translated by Ariana Reines. The book, originally published in France in 1999, is out this month from Semiotext(e).…
Interview with a John
Remember how MetaFilter linked to Antonia Crane’s “Paying to Play: Interview with a John”? The piece inspired an interesting conversation that’s still going down over there. Check it out? “I…
Suspended Detachment
“I know that those things, that scarf, that painting, that kimono, that ring, that past self—whatever happens to them physically, they exist for as long as I can remember them,…
Grief as a Living Thing
“I’ve never read anything like it,” writes Morgan Macgregor in a LARB review of Sara Manguso’s The Guardians. “The prose also seems to include the reader by spinning relentlessly in…
Where Things Stand
Andrew Sullivan linked to Roxane Gay’s “Where Things Stand,” which revealed that nearly 90% of books reviewed in The New York Times were written by white authors. Amanda Hess also…