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Lyz Lenz
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Rise Up, Writers!
In Pacific Standard, Colette Shade writes about journalism, health, and unions: One day, about three months in, two of my bosses took me into a small conference room. They told me that they were dissatisfied with my performance—in particular, some…
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Weekly Geekery
Inmates Yelp for help. What it’s like to never taste falafel, or anything at all. Obama gives up on a grand unified theory of college ranking systems. Why no redheads, emotji? The annual awkwardness of tweeting 9/11. The Internet and…
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Teaching Nonviolence in an Age of Violence
When I was a young girl, my father transcribed from memory some of King’s great speeches and asked me to memorize them myself. Later, he bought old records with recordings of the speeches — ‘‘The Drum Major Instinct,’’ ‘‘I’ve Been…
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The Complexities of Litchat
Laura Miller writes in the New Yorker about litchat and legacy: In fact, litchat has assumed an ever-greater role in criticism because so much of what once happened privately and fleetingly is now public and preserved. Social-media platforms like Facebook…
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Weekly Geekery
You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape the Internet. Why do we hate the new Google? Hacking victims and empathy. What do those emails really say about Hilary?
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What to Call the Penis?
Kim Devereux outlines some rules for writing good sex. (But never bad sex.) Do go for the etymological dictionary for epithets that feel historical: like, membrum virile, arbor vitae (from the late 18th century, for a type of evergreen shrub), wrinkly…
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Why Internet Comments Suck
Wittgenstein explains why discourse on the Internet sucks. And it’s not just because of your crazy uncle. So, language is quicksand—except it’s not. Unlike the parlor tricks of the deconstructionists who bloviate about différance and traces, there clearly are rules that…
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Weekly Geekery
Software is better than your psychiatrist. The human carnage of Amazon. Uterus transplants! Only science can answer your questions. All hail the King of Reddit.
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Everyday You’re Hustlin’
If you’re not making enough money, or if you’re stuck in a dead-end job that you’re overqualified for, it’s because you just aren’t hustling hard enough. It most certainly is not because there aren’t enough jobs, or the minimum wage…
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The Economics of a Childhood Summer
At Longreads, Elissa Strauss analyzes the economics and frustrations that come with giving low-income children a summer.
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AWP Is (Apparently) Not Us
Publisher’s Weekly has a detailed breakdown of the AWP debacle that has consumed writerly conversations this past week.
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Weekly Geekery
The smartphone is the new washing machine. Your ad blocker pain is someone else’s gain. Clutch your pearls! Women are using technology to have sex. Science wants all you kids off his lawn. Oysters and the meaning of the wilderness.