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Notable Portland: 9/1–9/7
Thursday 9/1: Reading Frenzy celebrates its Copper Anniversary with special literary guests, signings, snacks, specials, and other surprises. Support one local bookshop surviving twenty-two years! Reading Frenzy, 11–7 p.m., free. Dmae Roberts reads from her book, The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories…
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Bringing Diversity to the Comic Book Store World
Ariell Johnson, owner of Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse in Philadelphia, is the East Coast’s first black female comic book store owner. For CNN, Ryan Bergeron talks with Johnson about opening up the geek world to young black girls, bringing comic authors…
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How a Poet Tackles Today’s Violence
I’ll start again by telling you that this is a body. A body that bears the weight of its makers. A body that’s trying to tell a story, without making it pretty, but this is perhaps where poetry fails me,…
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Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas
Mark Haber reviews Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas today in Rumpus Books.
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Structure as Lightning Rod
Writing for The Millions, M.C. Mah turns over all the cards in the deck on structure in storytelling. He gathers words of wisdom—and many metaphors—from luminaries like John McPhee, Borges, Vonnegut, and George Saunders, and then links the contemporary “horoscopic…
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Songs of Our Lives: Stereolab’s “Pause”
“Pause,” like the nostalgia it references, possesses the qualities of ceremony. My ceremony: I played and replayed this song that year, transforming past into present into past over and over.
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Kindness/Aggression
In a poignant essay for Electric Literature, memoirist Lori Jakiela (Belief is it’s Own Kind of Truth, Maybe) looks back on the time she spent working the church kitchen on bingo nights, and what it taught her about life and…
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Everyone Has an Opinion
Robert Anton Wilson—spiritualist, prophet, or batshit crazy? At disinfo, Thad McKraken weighs the pros and cons of his one-time idol: I mean, it’s not super tough to diagnose what went wrong with R.A.W. as far as spiritual progress goes. To…
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A Romance with Concision
Can’t wait for Sarah Manguso’s newest book, 300 Arguments? Over at Harper’s Magazine, you can read an essay excerpted from the book about brevity and aphorisms. Manguso writes: Please don’t try to convince me that my romance with concision follows…
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This Week in Posivibes: WWINGS
The Russian trio’s self-proclaimed “disturbing and depressive” apocalyptic electronic music has hit an incredible, eerie place with PHOENIXXX, one of their seven (!) releases from 2016. Members Lit Daw, Lit Eyne, and Lit Internet met via the web, beginning their collaboration…
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Cats, Comics, and Conservation
Some find it strange that a person known for her novels and poetry would take to writing comic books called Angel Catbird. But I myself don’t find it very strange. Read an excerpt from the talented Margaret Atwood’s first graphic novel, Angel…
