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Roxie Pell

Roxie Pell is a student at Wesleyan University, where she writes for Wesleying and The Argus and tweets hilarious nuggets of pure wisdom @jonathnfranzen.
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    Dating Deviance

    Between celebrating how far we’ve come and preparing for how far we have to go, now is a good time to brush up on your queer literature. Over at Lit Hub, Rebecca Brill looks at “the evolution of the Great…

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    Not Like Other Geeks

    Queen mother of lady nerds Margaret Atwood has reaffirmed her status as the OG Cool Chick Carol by contributing to an all-female nonfiction anthology called The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. As if we needed another incentive to support women…

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    A Tipping Point

    These days, a trade nonfiction title that manages to sell probably does so by trafficking in broad questions and big ideas, often explored through pop science or panacea: From William Carlos Williams’ notion of “no ideas but in things”, we’re…

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    Stacks on Stacks

    Consumer culture impossibly demands that we acquire possessions ad infinitum while condemning the clutter these objects inevitably produce. Over at Lit Hub, Susan Harlan surrenders to the stack: After all, how does a book find its place? Where does it…

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    The Right Balance

    New Common Core standards adopted by over forty states require member schools to begin teaching more nonfiction in English class. The Times looks into the pros and cons of pairing literature with legal documents:             “We do so much nonfiction,” Karma…

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    To Boldly Code Where No Man Has Coded Before

    Be honest: you learned a few tags, dabbled in Wordpress, maybe a little web design here and there; suddenly “light HTML” is appearing on your resume and you’re making potential employers promises you can’t keep. Luckily for your underdeveloped left-brain, this…

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    On Location

    Sometimes where we read can be just as affecting as what we read. Over at Lit Hub, various writers describe their places of preference: Is there one among us who has not spent romantic moments in the tower of a…

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    What If

    Last week, Elisa Gabbert broke Twitter with her advice column addressing a white male writer’s anxieties about privilege and perspective. Christian Lorentzen followed up with the author for Vulture:  But let’s talk about it! What if? What if we changed…

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    Lost in Translation

    Last Thursday, Charlie Rose tried to talk to Karl Ove Knausgaard about My Struggle. Or Karl Ove Knausgaard tried to talk to Charlie Rose. They tried.

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    Examining Culture

    Analysts have generally ignored these texts, as if poetry were a colorful but ultimately distracting by-product of jihad. But this is a mistake. It is impossible to understand jihadism—its objectives, its appeal for new recruits, and its durability—without examining its…

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    Fear and Looking

    It’s not like it’s the first time the book has come around in a different medium, so why not comics? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a deeply visual book, and while Terry Gilliam’s film adaptation is nothing if…

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    Beyond Vanilla

    Natasha Gornik’s photographs of people involved in New York’s BDSM scene capture the honesty and community that are essential to practicing kink. Check out her work here, and read about it on her blog.