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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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    Pynchon in Colonial New England

    At the Public Domain Review, read about Thomas Pynchon’s oldest colonial ancestor, who also happened to be a writer—though he was much less successful and much more heavily censored.

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    The Official MAJOR! Trailer

    A new documentary, MAJOR!, chronicles the life of Miss Major, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall riots and countless other important movements for transwomen of color. Read an interview with Miss Major here, and watch the trailer for the documentary…

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    We Need Diverse Editors

    At the end of the day, maybe the responsibility to publish diverse perspectives falls onto publishers and editors. Over at Paper Darts, Rachel Charlene Lewis argues that if we really want to diversify literature, editors and publishers need to be…

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    The Mystery of Shakespeare’s Skull

    There is this skull sitting there on its own and we would love to know who it is. At the Telegraph, read about how a £300 bet, an ancient curse, and a lawyer might keep us from knowing once and…

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    Cook Like a Prisoner

    In prison, Gustavo “Goose” Alvarez learned to love ramen. Now Alvarez has a book of recipes based on his time in prison, interspersed with stories like the time when food saved his life during a race riot: “They were stuck…

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    The Softer Side of the Church of Satan

    Throughout the Panic, one group was turned to again and again as the best evidence that the Devil had droves of organized followers: the Church of Satan. Read an excerpt from The Believer‘s interview with the High Priest of the…

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    Reading on Reading on Reading

    For Ploughshares, Clare Beams talks about the strange effect of reading a story in which someone reads a story: Paintings of people looking at paintings, like this one, can make me fall into a dizzy sort of hole. Gazing at…

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    She Had Many Selves

    The next year, my grandmother dressed as an inflatable sheriff.  She was a devout Catholic who’d worked at Planned Parenthood. She had many selves. At Catapult, Tim Manley writes and illustrates a history of his grandmother’s Halloween costumes.

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    Writing In Another Dimension

    Edison floods the world with light; biologists discover germs and defy Death; botanists grow tropical plants in Parisian glass-houses and affront Nature with hot-house orchids; the phonograph and the cinema fold Time and Space for the masses. And for some…

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    A Podcast Becomes A Novel

    In Night Vale, people experience several realities at once — and so do I, writing this review with a strange sort of triple vision. NPR reviews Welcome to Night Vale, a novel based on the popular (and surreal) podcast of…

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    Open a Door for The Offing

    The Offing is a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices. It’s only been around since March, but The Offing has already published over 150 writers and artists and has a staff that is one of…

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    Writing from the Basement

    I never bring my computer with me to the basement, and the discipline of the method is to force myself to work out the ideas, the arrangement of the argument or story before I start building paragraphs and sentences. For…