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Killer App
The Claudius App, “a journal of fast poetry,” just released their fifth issue in a strange and exuberant form. Click around at will for poetry, essays, audio, video, and even a textual computer game called Titanichat. Get ready to be…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers is full of energy. It is about people carving out their own worldviews into the established façade of the world. The artists in New York and the protesters in Italy are moving toward something different—something, if…
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We Love You Back, Andrew Sullivan!
We just noticed that Andrew Sullivan linked to our interview with Oliver Sacks on his website the Dish. (He also linked to an interview Sacks did with the superb radio show/podcast Radiolab. If you liked our interview, you’ll probably like that…
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Re-Live Litquake’s digi.lit Conference
If you couldn’t make it to Litquake’s digi.lit conference, never fear—you can listen to Laura Miller’s keynote address here. Though the conference focused on digital publishing, the Salon writer talks just as much about traditional publishing and how it has given…
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Belmont by Stephen Burt
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Stephen Burt’s Belmont today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Obituary of Jane Catherine Lotter
Jane Catherine Lotter, an author dying from Grade 3, Stage IIIC endometrial cancer, decided to write her own obituary. Originally published in the Seattle Times, republished here:
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is on tour with his band through August 10, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. First, let’s get much too close; intimate like a mosquito. And when you look down after pulling back: see the rat race…
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The Last City I Loved: Austin
I was new to Austin and to adulthood, and if adulthood meant dressing up in pencil skirts and suffering, well, I’d pretend that was as glamorous as it looked in old movies. I didn’t care. I loved it. I’d kiss…
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FUNNY WOMEN #105: Reflections of the Boyfriend of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl
I don’t even know her. But I do. I want to marry her and sleep by her side forever.
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Helpful Hints for Emerging Writers
Being the most talented writer doesn’t necessarily translate into publishing success, which really comes from methodical and consistent work rather than raw talent. Read this and other advice for emerging writers at the Missouri Review‘s blog. Bonus: The post’s author, Michael…
