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The Things Abandoned by Hollywood
Thinking about his films while watching an American film leads to a sobering realization: all the things that Kiarostami could not show in his films became the only things Hollywood filmmakers chose to show in theirs. What he showed in…
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Looking Back to New Jack City
The 1991 cult film New Jack City is once again examined and celebrated this week, with okayplayer. publishing one piece celebrating its soundtrack, and another with a behind-the-scenes reflection from the film’s star Ice T. The artist talks about playing a cop for his first…
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This Week in Short Fiction
Irish author Danielle McLaughlin didn’t start writing fiction until 2010, but in the years since she has amassed an impressive collection of writing awards, including the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition, and has twice placed stories in the New Yorker.…
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Voices on Addiction: Mother’s Day
I will always feel a little broken. Intellectually, I know her disease is “not my fault.” But I’m her mother. I will always partially feel the blame.
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Journalism’s Increasing Blind Spot
Barriers for entering journalism are only increasing; according to a report, journalism has “a greater degree of social exclusivity than any other profession”. The Guardian’s Harrison Jones argues that if newsrooms do not attempt to invest in remedying this issue,…
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You Are Here
Nabokov understood the seduction of maps as a way of ordering the fantastic, the disorderly, the sometimes contradictory nature of description, a visual aid to the internal eye. For Lit Hub, Susan Daitch gives a sweeping textual overview of the…
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Notable Chicago: 8/5–8/11
Friday 8/5: Head to The Book Cellar to hear Savy Leiser read from her debut novel The Making of a Small-Town Beauty King. 7 p.m., free. Sunday 7/7: As always, the Uptown Poetry slam is going down at The Green…
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Why Women Freelance More
More and more people are leaving the salaried workplace for the freelance economy. But it’s not necessarily by choice; at Bitch Magazine, Sarah Grey discusses how companies and labor policy push women in particular toward freelancing, and why the “lean…
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A Eulogy for the Eulogy
Twentieth century philosopher J.L. Austin asked in his writing what words and phrases could do in their utterance. In this tradition, Nick Ripatrazone examines Morgan Meis and Stefanie Anne Goldberg’s fictionalized eulogy collection, Dead People, to find out what the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s Friday, so let’s start off with a trip through the history of tiki bars. Architecture in the age of mass shootings (everything is horrible). Don’t worry though, the universe is becoming more hospitable. What the Olympics leave behind. The…
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The Rumpus Interview with Ann Packer
Ann Packer discusses her most recent novel The Children’s Crusade, artistic mothers, the writer and her “first principle,” and the fight to like your own characters.