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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Documenting Sagas
An online, audiovisual storytelling network: Cowbird. “Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events. Our long-term goal is…
Race and Redistricting
The Nation explains how the GOP is resegregating the South with its infuriating redistricting campaign. “The GOP’s long-term goal is to enshrine a system of racially polarized voting that will…
New York Letter Love
Today, Letters In The Mail got double the love from The New York Times and NY Daily News. Thanks to you both!
Radio Ambulante
A new transnational, Spanish-language, radio program seeks to share human stories throughout Latin America and the U.S. In the last year, Radio Ambulante has built a production network throughout the…
What’s The Lifespan of a Fact?
Go behind the fact-checking scenes with this email exchange between Believer fact-checker and writer.
Sugar Says
Last summer, Sugar wrote about taking on the Dear Sugar endeavor back in 2010 and how her approach has differed immensely from her original intent for the column. Creative Nonfiction…
Didion’s Places To Go
“Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can’t reach otherwise.” Joan Didion’s conversation with Sheila Heti is now available in its…
Thanks Guardian
Letters In The Mail got some love from the London Guardian today. We love you back!
“To My Old Master”
Here’s a letter written in 1865 by an ex-enslaved man, Jourdan Anderson, in response to his former master’s request that Jourdan return to work on his farm. “I served you…
Unreliable Narrators
In reviewing RENEGADE: Henry Miller and the Making of “Tropic of Cancer,” Jeanette Winterson explores mythmaking in cultural criticism, unearthing who and what gets ignored in the process. “There is…
Everyday Strangeness
“Her stories are distorted mirrors of domesticity, not because they skew the world but because they provide a magnified lens through which we can see what’s always been present but…