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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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    The Rumpus Interview with Leland Cheuk

    Leland Cheuk discusses his novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, dark humor, cancer, morally corrupt characters, and his mother.

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    How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky

    Lyz Lenz reviews How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky today in Rumpus Books.

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    Weekly Geekery

    There is a looming rift in science journalism. Also, a looming rift in journalism journalism. Letting the robots take over. Brains are not computers. Death, plutonium, and our nuclear history.

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    Weekly Geekery

    A fascinating analysis of the language of commencement speeches. How to save our digital history. Should the digital humanities even be a thing? Predictive modeling, criminals, and racial bias.

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    Weekly Geekery

    In a blow to nerdy librarians everywhere, The Toast is closing. And what does the closing of The Toast mean for online community? How social media changes the fame game. Archiving content on nickel plate. When websites manipulate you.

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    Weekly Geekery

    If Klingon is a living language then Latin sure as hell isn’t dead. “I think therefore I am,” but for animals. Solving history’s mysteries with poop. The Internet is ruining the planet in more ways than you think.

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    Weekly Geekery

    If a weasel can shut down the Large Hadron Collider, we can finish that novel. And barring any more weasel problems, the future of physics is very exciting. Did you celebrate email debt forgiveness day? Fake hackers make more money…

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    Weekly Geekery

    The government has always been spying on you. Updating the search for immortality. People could judge you for giving bad email. Facebook is not social networking.

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    Weekly Geekery

    Is indie publishing dead or just moving over to Medium? Your money is snitching on you. Are you schizophrenic? There’s an app for that. Alert: More hand-wringing over technology ruining things. This time, the death we mourn is live music.

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    There Is No Such Thing as the Ugly Cry

    Rachel Vorona Cote writes about the aesthetics of crying for The New Republic: To cry this way—vigorously, heartily, vulgarly—reveals vulnerability at the same time that it conveys physical might and mettle. Our bodies can speak for themselves, says the ugly…

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    Women-Only Art Shows

    The New York Times has an article on the rise of women-only art shows, but will it help?

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    Weekly Geekery

    The mystery of schizophrenia and the mystery of identity. History in the cloud. Opting out of social media. Sex restores the balance within us.

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