Rombes Nominated for Pushcart
Our very own Nicholas Rombes’ story “Supernova” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize! Congrats Nick!
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
World AIDS Day
The Atlantic has assembled articles in a special report for World AIDS Day. The Guardian gives their own report on AIDS and HIV. Included is a gallery of photos revealing…
Tahereh Mafi Interview
Jacket Copy spoke with Tahereh Mafi about Shatter Me, the first book in her young-adult trilogy. Mafi discusses how the idea for the main character’s “girl-with-the-lethal-touch” idea arose and whether…
Dream City
Salon kicked off a new column called Dream City with an exploration of how “cities of the future” are being designed. “…The inescapable truth is that the new urban reality…
Libraries as Incubator
The recently launched Libraries as Incubator Project seeks to broaden the public’s notion of libraries “by celebrating the ways that they nurture arts communities around the country.” Check out the…
On Ann Beattie
“Beattie is an artist of silence, of the things we don’t say or can’t, the things that find expression anyway. She is an artist of the space between the words—of…
Personal Paper Prying
At HTML Giant, Roxane Gay ponders our insatiable curiosity about the personal papers of famous writers, reflecting on the value of preservation versus privacy. “Somewhere, there exists a random note…
Muppet Lessons
Breaking down the resolutions of three specific conflicts over the course of the “Classic Muppet years,” this article reveals examples for anyone attempting to preserve their art while also making…
Female Detectives Then and Now
This Q&A with crime writer Denise Mina touches on office politics, rude women, and the evolution of the female detective. “Now you’ve reached the point where a woman is just…
Tell Your True Tale
“The day before I killed Donald Evans I did not even know he existed. The day he died I was smoking crack cocaine and when I smoke crack, nothing else…
Airline Crisis Art
Is the airline safety card more a work of the imagination than an actual instructional manual? This article guides us through the history of the often ignored “art of airline…
HIDE/SEEK in Brooklyn
Gallerina implores us to see HIDE/SEEK, “the groundbreaking examination of sexuality and gay identity in American portraiture” that opened last week at the Brooklyn Museum to the din of anti-gay…