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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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    Interviewing Lady Writers: A Primer

    If she is a writer of colour; ask how her race has impacted upon her writing. Try to make it both your first and last question, after the attractiveness and skin thing. If she is blonde; mention it. If she…

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    Who Do You Cry For?

    Who do we remember and why do we mourn? Teju Cole writes about unmournable bodies for the New Yorker.

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    Weekly Geekery

    Science knows exactly how you feel right now. How the good enough get better. Intimacy and vulnerability on the Internet. Why women don’t comment online. Internet philistines are why we can’t have nice things.

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    You Are Doing It All Wrong

    The Review Review lists all the ways your submission strategy for your writing is just terrible (and how to make it better).

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    Mother Moore

    In Hazlitt, Naomi Skwarna writes about using the writing of Lorrie Moore as a mother substitute: Living without a mother is a freedom by turns radical and excruciating. It is swimming in the ocean, and Moore’s writing was what made…

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    Weekly Geekery

    Is this where digital media is headed? When your body is tracked. Gender, power, privilege, and technology. What did you talk about on social media in 2014? Publish or perish: Amazon edition.

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    Rollin’ Down a River

    What is there left to say about Huck Finn? Andrew Levy is saying it.

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    But What About Me?

    There’s a certain heuristic online these days that stems from a somewhat impossible idea that every narrated experience should contain, account for, and address every other one out there. There is no breed of reaction that deadens me more, for…

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    Weekly Geekery

    Building an academic audience. The technology of your childhood. Academic innovation and the blame game. Pain and your brain and gain. When Reddit and journalism collide.

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    Weekly Geekery

    What do machines take from us? Hacking the police. Saving Egyptians. Do headlines change the way we read? The Internet is real.

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    Good Writing and Bad Surveillance

    The idea of “good writing” is shaped by social forces—that are in turn shaped by economic and historical forces—and our own identity privileges and privileges as editors (if we are editors). Determining what is good or bad is an aesthetic…

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    Weekly Geekery

    Victorians: The original futurists. Can Sony stop the leaks? Can social media stop vitriol and still maintain freedom of speech? Should you go to jail for your Facebook profile? What a podcast teaches us about memory. Wikipedia is becoming as…