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The Rumpus Interview With Neela Vaswani
Neela Vaswani is author of the award-winning short story collection Where the Long Grass Bends (2004). An education activist in India and the U.S., she lives in New York and is the founder of the Storylines Project with the New…
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Chats With Random Men #1: Emre
This week we kick off a new blog where Brooklyn-based singer/writer Alina Simone teaches us how to use the Internet for its penultimate purpose: chatting with random men. Beginning with Emre…
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Morning Coffee
Vintage Tokyo subway manners posters (yes)! This is a literary website sometimes, so we should probably link to these newly redesigned F Scott Fitzgerald covers. I’m not going to lie to you, I think these urban-vertical-farming design ideas are pretty…
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Sorry, We’re Clothed
The Lusty Lady was a theatre. There was a live stage show, an old fashion peep show, and one-on-one sex shows in the Private Pleasures booth. There were video booths where you could watch porn like in an old arcade.
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Rebecca K. O’Connor: The Last Book I Loved, Tapping the Source
It’s never too late to read a book you should have read when you were 21, or to find a lost love or to realize that everything is interlinked and woven tight and turns back on itself. I say this…
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On the Road Meets Strunk and White
The Great Typo Hunt chronicles the journey of two conscientious vandals, Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Hurston, as they attempt to reform our nation’s signage. Listen to the story at Talk of the Nation.
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“PWxyz’s Most Underrated Writers”
Yesterday we mentioned Craig Morgan Teicher’s search (spurred by an asinine Huffington Post article) for “the Most Underrated Writers in America.” Craig named our own Stephen Elliott as underrated writer number one, and then encouraged readers to submit their own…
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The Silent Woman
An account of the marriage between Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller says a lot about the actress’s hygiene and sexual habits. The relationship, not so much.