A Culture of Chronic Worry
So: Ideological freedom may have led us to worry, but the new ideology of individual liberty leads us right back to a conception of choice that denies the nature of…
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Lyz Lenz
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Lyz's writing has been published in the New York Times Motherlode, Jezebel, Aeon, Pacific Standard, and others. Her book on midwestern churches is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. She has her MFA from Lesley and skulks about on Twitter @lyzl. Lyz is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board and a full-time staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Anti-dentite. Being an American girl is expensive. A daughter’s revenge. The metaphors…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Now is a good time to read Green River Running Red. RIP…
Weekly Geekery
Computers are judging you. Sexy robot story! Sexy robot story! “Trolls of mine, so undivine…” A wasteland of bodies. If it’s between money and trees, take the trees.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Getting your MFA at 68. Utopias have nothing but trouble. Fetishizing food.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) It’s dubious whether these parents read either book. It’s not personal, it’s just…
Cocaine Wine
In 1863, chemist Angelo Mariani created Vin Mariani, a combination of Bordeaux wine and coca leaves (you know, where cocaine comes from). As you can imagine, it was an instant…
The Politics of the Bride Body
Lindy West on what it was like being a fat bride, and the public politics of private acts: But “beauty” is a fraught concept. There’s an awkward three-way tension between…
Weekly Geekery
Religion and science in the ancient world. It’s okay Nessie, there are some who still believe. Reforming Reddit. Women’s labor and online games.
Kill Them All
Arielle Bernstein, Rumpus Film/TV/Media and Saturday Editor, writes about Rihanna, bitches, and blood over at Salon: Women are raised on images of toxic masculinity just like the men around us are.…
Read and Then Read Again
How do we reread and is it necessary? Tim Parks demystifies the art of going back to a text for the third, fourth and fifth time.
Weekly Geekery
Go, to bed. Now. Facebook begrudgingly cedes that they might not have a PhD in You. Literary non-fiction on the edge of technology… old technology that is. No technology can replace reading out…