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P.E. Garcia

P.E. Garcia is an Editor-at-Large for the Rumpus and a contributor to HTMLGiant. They currently live in Philadelphia, where they were recently accidentally elected to be Judge of Elections. Find them on Twitter: @AvantGarcia.
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    Resurrecting a Soviet Satire

    The New York Times takes a look at Dying For It, a new adaption of The Suicide, a 1928 satirical play written (but never performed) under Stalinism.

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    Shame and Shamelessness

    I’m more interested in someone like…Allen Ginsberg…people who are shameless because they have a sense of shame. What they’re really trying to do is to change the face of shame itself. Ginsberg was an ethical person, but he grew up…

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    A Dog Named Human

    For me, the perfect metaphor for rethinking our relationship to other species comes in the form of a dog named “Human,”owned and “curated” by French artist Pierre Huyghe, in his retrospective currently on view at LACMA. Ironically enough, such a…

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    Reliving the Seventies

    For n+1, Nicholas Dame writes about a recent trend in novels: looking back to the 70s.

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    How to Survive Your Twenties

    I survived mine by moving a thousand miles north to a forest with a great college and eventually finding an excellent therapist. Electric Literature interviewed Wendy C. Ortiz about her memoir, her upcoming book, and how she made it through…

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    Charles D’Ambrosio’s Fast Friends

    For the New York Times, Phillip Lopate reviews Charles D’Ambrosio’s new essay collection, Loitering, and explains why he thinks that D’Ambrosio, in essays, has “found the perfect medium.”

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    Remembering Forgotten Women

    I think there’s a lot of dissonance for women, where there’s how we want to live, and how we want to see ourselves, and then what our real circumstances are. And I think the more we can close that distance…

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    The Translator as a God

    Actually, I would compare the translator to a God—but unlike some false gods, he does respond to your prayers… Electric Literature interviews Alex Epstein, the author behind the True Legends app, about his experience collaborating with other artists and working…

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    Victorian Hair Art’s Literary Legacy

    The Ploughshares blog looks at Victorian hair art and the way it was woven into classics such as Wuthering Heights, Anne of Green Gables, and Little Women.

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    The Post-Postmodern Novel

    For Flavorwire, Jonathon Sturgeon declares 2014 the year that the postmodern novel died and the year that autofiction—a “new class of memoiristic, autobiographical and metafictional novels”—rose to take its place.

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    How to Read and Write Indian Literature

    Anyone who simplifies a nation’s discourse misreads that nation. When you’re reading the texts of a recently created nation like India, which was only founded in 1947, you must know the political, historical, and linguistic backdrop, or you will miswrite…

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    The Future of Old Art

    The Public Domain Review previews literature and art that will be entering the public domain in 2015, including work from Flannery O’Connor and Ian Fleming.