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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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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…