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Lyz Lenz

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.

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Lyz Lenz

Jul 30, 2015

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 human suffering. The mentally ill do not choose their agonies.…
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 30, 2015

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 of ants.
Morning Coffee

Lyz Lenz

Jul 29, 2015

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 Ann Rule. Fantastical history with Richard Nixon. This is not…
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 28, 2015

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.
Morning Coffee

Lyz Lenz

Jul 28, 2015

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. Is Gawker good?
Morning Coffee

Lyz Lenz

Jul 27, 2015

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 privileged. Fact-checking the infamous nail salon story. Being bored in…
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 23, 2015

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 hit. Advertisements promised to “restore health and vitality,” cure malaria,…
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 23, 2015

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 wedding culture and feminism and fat acceptance – because of…
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 21, 2015

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.
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 16, 2015

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. Many of us also played “Grand Theft Auto” and watched…
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 16, 2015

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.
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Lyz Lenz

Jul 14, 2015

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 loud. Technology to help you with your addiction to technology.…