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Salvatore Pane
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Adopt an Endangered Word
Save the Words is a new web-based campaign to save endangered words. According to their website, hundreds of long out-of-use words are deleted from the dictionary every year leaving us with only 7,000 accounting for almost all of our daily…
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A Surfboard Not an Ark: Reflections on Electric Literature
Andy Hunter, editor of the brilliant lit mag Electric Literature, gives Publisher’s Weekly an informative retrospective on his journal and his thoughts about the future of publishing. For those unaware, you can purchase print copies of Electric Literature, PDFs, or…
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Podcast Q&A With Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein
Over at Hot Metal Bridge, Steve Gillies hits us with a podcast version of a Q&A with Lorin Stein. Introduced by author Chuck Kinder, Lorin Stein talks with the book review editor of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and chats about Freedom…
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Donate to Pop Serial and Get Free Swag
For those unaware, Pop Serial is a limited edition lit journal published by the one and only Stephen Dierks (peep his work here). Their second issue features the work of such notable writers as Tao Lin, Frank Hinton, Noah Cicero…
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I’m On a Cataclysm Kick: Philip Roth on Aging Novelists and His New Book “Nemesis”
My boy P. Roth hits David Ulin and the LA Times with a superb interview in anticipation of his latest novel Nemesis. He chats up imagined apocalypse, the absence of god, losing energy and more: “I don’t know what causes…
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Get a Tattoo AND Books For Life!
You a fan of the publisher Two Dollar Radio? Want a free lifetime subscription to all their books? All you have to do is tattoo their logo onto your body and bam, books for life. Two Dollar author Joshua Mohr…
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This Fantasy Is Most Disturbing
In Brock Clarke’s Exley, a boy tries to reunite with his father, and to sort out the difference between fact and fiction.
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Paper-thin People
The winner of this year’s Drue Heinz prize writes flash fiction that bursts with poetic imagery and focuses on lust and the death of beauty.
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Michel Takes Down Batuman
Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel has written a beautiful response to Elif Batuman’s anti-MFA essay from last week. What do you think, folks? Whose side are you on?
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Is Social Media Replacing New York as the Center of Cultural Production?
Is New York still the center of cultural activity in the modern world? Colleen Dilenschneider isn’t so sure. On her blog, Dilenschneider writes about five ways in which social media is actually replacing NYC as the hub of creative development.…
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Bid in This Lit Auction; Help a Cancer Patient
Jennifer Derilo is like so many in America in that she doesn’t have health insurance. What sets her apart is that she’s in her early thirties yet is battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Many of her friends and former teachers are writers…
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“Don’t Forget to Smile When You Serve Cold Drinks”
Something wonderful has happened. Make sure you stay until 1:07. (via WWAAtD)