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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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    The Underdog Botanist

    This, then, is the story of how one of Britain’s most promising, skilled explorers struggled to find a place in Victorian science, unable to shake his love for the underdogs of the plant world. The Public Domain Review shares the story…

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    The Fiction of Work

    Most work is not fulfilling, and by the time we finally realize it all the friends we’d like to turn to for support have been scattered across the globe in pursuit of fulfilling work. At Ploughshares, Tim Ellison looks at…

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    Wow, Such Meme, Much Apocalypse

    It’s good fun to imagine a meme taking down humanity. NPR reviews James Tynion IV’s new graphic novel Memetic, a tale of an apocalypse that kicks off with a seemingly innocuous internet meme.

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    What Separates Us From the Dolphins?

    Can dolphin sonar penetrate the steel hull of a boat—and pinpoint a stilled heart? Can dolphins empathize with human bereavement? Is dolphin society organized enough to permit the formation of a funeral cavalcade? The New York Review of Books reviews Carl…

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    Why They Chose the Cricket Risotto

    Halfway through her essay “Mēl,” Amy Wright sits down to a freshly prepared bowl of cricket risotto. The Kenyon Review discusses what led them to publish Amy Wright’s latest essay.

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    Growing Up in the American Dream

    Ploughshares talks to Jennine Capó Crucet about her new novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, and what it was like growing up with parents who bought into the American Dream: I mean, my parents named me Jennine after the Miss America runner…

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    Life Into Art: Memoirs Adapted for Television and Film

    On Saturday, October 17th, join Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott, along with Susan Orlean, Jerry Stahl, and Evan Wright, for a panel discussion hosted by Derrick C. Brown about what it’s like to have your memoir adapted for television and film. All proceeds…

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    A List of Literary Teachers

    Just in time for back-to-school season, Ploughshares has this list of some of the most memorable teachers in literature.

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    The First Urban Apocalypse

    This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a bronchial spasm. For the Public Domain Review, Brett Beasley examines Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City, widely considered to be the first science fiction novel…

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    The Artist Who Was a Reader

    “I’m basically a reader. That’s just what I do,” he said. For The Believer, Matthew Erickson remembers the artist Robert Seydel.

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    It’s Not Just Gourd Season

    Yes, it’s gourd season—but for those of us who teach, it’s also syllabus season and course-packet season. At the Kenyon Review, Cody Walker talks about going back to school and all that comes with it.

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    Finding Wyoming in Paris

    I was living in Paris, and for some reason I started writing ranch stories. It makes perfect sense. NPR interviews Percival Everett about his new collection Half an Inch of Water and getting inspiration while nowhere near the place he…