Medicinal Literature
Electric Literature posted a conversation with author Sandra Cisneros, in which she talks about books and their healing power, and the importance of poetry today: This is a time for poetry. Poets…
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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.
Roxane Gay Wins PEN Center Award
Literary juggernaut, Rumpus Essays Editor Emeritus, and beloved Twitter person Roxane Gay won the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award. Gay told Lit Hub: “The freedom to write,” Gay…
Gaitskill on Tolstoy
Mary Gaitskill wrote for the Atlantic on Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina and the complexities of personality: Everyone says Anna Karenina is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the…
Weekly Geekery
The technological reinvention of the NYPL. The morality of Uber. All those times science took the supernatural seriously. The parables of Pavlov.
Evil Working for Good
How a culture of goblins and ghouls led to the revival of a small Midwestern town.
Haunting Girls
At Broadly, Stassa Edwards writes about poltergeists, vulnerability, and the bodies of young girls.
Nato Green Stand-Up Showcase
Tonight, comedian Nato Green—who just joined us for our S.F. LitCrawl event—is hosting a live stand-up comedy showcase with comedians Will Durst, Kate Willett, Kelly Anneken, Josef Anolin, Natasha Muse, Dash Kwiatkowski, and Shanti Charan. The…
Weekly Geekery
The logic behind the Internet’s inherent creepiness. Understanding “Black Twitter.” The reason we got a taco emoji. Your fears are futile.
Life Cycle of an Eyebrow Hair
Jezebel has complied pictures of the questions the staff at the New York Public Library had to answer in the pre-Google days.
What Doesn’t Yet Exist
At the Guardian, Terry Eagleton writes about revolutions, the future, and utopias: The real soothsayers are those hired by the big corporations to peer into the entrails of the system…
Weekly Geekery
The crazy world of adult content. What poison teaches us about life. Why does hate live online? Medicine and art meet in Stendahl syndrome.
Pristine California
Seen from the vantage point of this blank grave, and the ruin that came before it, Watkins’ life feels like something out of Dreiser. Seen from its beginning—the summers in…