The Sentimental Thinker
“If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental,” she writes, “that is only the half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less…
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P.E. Garcia
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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.
A Chaucer Christmas
To the sound of silver trumpets, knokke thrice on the doore. When thy distant relaciouns emerge, present them publiquely wyth the gifte of a fullye-funded pilgrimage to the locacioun of…
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, the Early Years
‘Marriage is my medium,’ he wrote. ‘You have no idea what a happy life Sylvia and I lead.’ Salon has an exclusive look into the early (and happy) days of…
Coffee is the Future of Libraries
The Telegraph looks at some of the recommendations from the Independent Library Report for England, which include the suggestion to offer the “usual amenities of coffee, sofas and toilets.”
The Return of Judy Blume
Judy Blume is back—at least for grown ups. Next summer, for the first time in 15 years, Judy Blume will release a novel aimed at adult readers. Melville House has…
Making Real People into Fiction
If you have a story that you want to tell, but you’re afraid that someone in your life is going to feel wounded, whether that feeling is justified or not,…
The New York Times Uncensored
At Slate, Justin Peters argues that the New York Times’s policy on profanity is in desperate need of updating.
A Biography of the Biography
For literary biography to survive as a genre, it ought to take its lead from literature and go even further. For the Guardian, Stuart Kelly looks at the history of…
The Martyr Story
What does Beloved have in common with The Hunger Games? How is the biopic Milk like Gone with the Wind? According to Amit Majmudar, they’re all variants of “the martyr…
The Original Comments Section
For the New Yorker, Lauren Collins looks at what she calls “the original comments section”—old notes written in the margins of books—and our modern obsession with them.
Jacqueline Woodson and the End of the World
I think I was pretty nervous about it as a kid. I think I did [have] that fear of the world coming to an end. I think also it’s kind…
Turning to Baldwin During Tragedy
Art has to be a confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort, it seems to me, is: if you can examine…