Low-Res Forever
Maggie Messitt writes a defense of low-residency MFA programs: These are my people. And, because we have always lived away from one another, we learned from the start that writing…
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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.
Weekly Geekery
Stop worrying about Buzzfeed and worry about yourself. That moment when you realize the Internet has changed the way you write. The darker side of the Internet writing business. Your…
Women, Writing, and Madness
I found a precedent for girls like me in the work of confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. They represented a respectable compromise between “real literature” and my irrepressible…
Who Really Struggles Here?
Amy Shearn makes the case for the struggle of author Dorothy Miller Richardson. As much as I do love my dear prolific weirdo Knausgaard, he hasn’t really done anything all…
Weekly Geekery
Google wants to rank searches on fact. But who decides what is a fact? Marissa Mayer is winning. Your dog ruined everything. You did too. For the last time, take…
Joan Didion on White People
Politics are not widely considered a legitimate source of amusement in Hollywood, where the borrowed rhetoric by which political ideas are reduced to choices between the good (equality is good)…
The Importance of Being Satire
There is, in fact, a widespread view that humor abandons its true purpose when it ceases to punch upward from below, when it ceases to play David to the great…
Weekly Geekery
Standing for reason. Touching everyone all the time always. Twitter: not a great contribution to the historical record. Will technology put an end to disability? A discussion with Slate. How…
Lady Hermits
Where have all the lady hermits gone? Rhian Sasseen is on the case: For women, for most of history, it’s been mother or maiden, daughter or wife. The roles shuffle,…
Weird, Wonderful Woolf
Emma Woolf (yes, a relation) writes about the personal life of Virginia Woolf: There has been much speculation about the sexual dimension of the Woolfs’ relationship: was the marriage ever…
Weekly Geekery
Vindicating psychiatry. The science of learning to read. Philip K. Dick warned you, but you didn’t listen. This robot can date for you. Love all over the world via Twitter.…
When the Internet Clashes With Academia
Marquette University is trying to fire a professor over a blog post. Predictably, it’s messy and involves issues of free speech, academic freedom, and the Internet.