The Trouble with Pronouns
I would never have consented to writing the story using a gendered pronoun for Sasha, but when that approach was rejected, writing without using pronouns at all seemed like a…
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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.
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Forcing logic on the world. You are probably distracted right now. One of us. One of us. One of us. The dark side of the Internet. Margaret Atwood on the…
Female Friendships in Fiction
Jezebel is running a series on female friendships in fiction, starting with a look at the relationship between Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane.
Harper Schmarper, It’s Kundera We Want
Sure, everyone is jazzed about the new Harper Lee book (except for those of us who are worried). But here is a book we can all get behind—a new Milan Kundera…
The Kill Fee is Killing Us All
Journalist Scott Carney wants to kill the kill fee: When I came back to America I sent the best draft of the piece I could to my editor. He didn’t…
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Dear future me, it’s past me. The blogs won. Seeing stories in color. A story of how two people met and fell in love in the 21st Century. TV in…
The Real Problem with Campus Rape
Fraternities do not have a monopoly on rapists: not at UVA, not at any frat, not even the deep Southern ones where upwards of 100 guys live in the house.…
Meme-Control
Don’t discount the power of memes to control minds. The National Post reports: Feminist Ryan Gosling is an “image macro,” a photo superimposed with text to humourous effect — and…
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How one troll came to repent for his sins. Speaking of trolls, they probably all have bad hearts. There is real symbiosis between science and fiction. There is also symbiosis between…
Reading Playboy for the Stories
Remembering Alice K. Turner, the fiction editor at Playboy magazine for two decades.
The Man Who Brings Us France
A profile on Arthur Goldhammer, who has translated over 100 books from French to English. As a translator, Goldhammer tries to find a pragmatic middle-ground between literalism and freestyle. The…
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Margaret Atwood only tweets 10 minutes a day. What is the true cost of caring? Crowdsourcing is not the brave new world we imagined. Can funny tweets change the world?…