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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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    Killing Baby Hitler

    Rebecca Onion writes for Aeon about taking the “what ifs” of history very seriously: In October 2015, when asked if, given the chance, he would kill the infant Hitler, the US presidential candidate Jeb Bush retorted with an enthusiastic: ‘Hell…

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    Weekly Geekery

    The digital life at sea. The unlikely history of video games. All those YouTubers sound the same. Once again, the Internet is ruining all good things.

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    Evil Characters You Probably Shouldn’t Love But Do Anyway

    Mallory Ortberg takes one for the team and admits to loving some unlovable characters like Henry VIII and Rumpelstiltskin.

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    Racism and Guns

    For Buzzfeed, Kashana Cauley writes about what it means to be a black woman at a gun show: Later it occurred to me what was missing from this picture: the kind of hunting culture that indicates people plan to shoot…

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    Weekly Geekery

    Hackers are taking down the police. Should we regulate the most addictive substance known to humans aka the Internet? The dark side of Silicon Valley. The food legacy of the great cranberry scare.

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    Weekly Geekery

    A song of my selfie. A year after the Sony hack. Wired: the good and the bad and the in between. A visual history of the OS we all love to hate.

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    The Lessons of Mapplethorpe

    It might be ill-advised to reduce an artist’s life and work to a single observation, the magic key that unlocks everything, but in the case of Robert Mapplethorpe there is a pronounced duality—in the themes and subjects depicted in his…

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    The Ivy Halls of Racism

    Larissa Pham writes about racism and Yale for Guernica: This tension is not new. It is a product of the systemic racism built into the institution, as ubiquitous as the architecture that characterizes the place in our shared consciousness. “Everyone…

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    Weekly Geekery

    Email is evil… Which explains why Millennials like it so much. Probably. Speaking of Millennials, they get a fancy new, techy bookstore in London. So, that’s nice. Quitting Facebook makes you happier.

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    Writers and Running

    Nick Ripatrazone on why writers need to run: While on sabbatical in London in 1972, a homesick Oates began running “compulsively; not as a respite for the intensity of writing but as a function of writing.” At the same time,…

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    Taking Students Seriously

    Roxane Gay, over at The New Republic, on student activism: In the protests at Mizzou and Yale and elsewhere, students have made it clear that the status quo is unbearable. Whether we agree with these student protesters or not, we…

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    Weekly Geekery

    Amazon will never replace libraries. The power of an emoji. Google is Minority Report. Probably. Technology and the palimpsest.

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