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Dispatch from the Carnival #2: The Snake Charmer

  • Tessa Fontaine
  • November 25, 2013
Sideshows themselves are a place where people come to see a public display of their private fears. Fear of deformity, of a disruption of the gender binary, of mutation, of disfigurement, of a crossover with the animal world, of being out of proportion.
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Lit-Link Round-up

  • Gina Frangello
  • November 24, 2013
Flavorwire’s 50 Books that define the last 5 years in literature. It’s a hell of a list. If you’re getting online for the first time in a week, National Book…
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Miss Plastique by Lynn Levin

  • Antonia Clark
  • November 23, 2013
Antonia Clark reviews Lynn Levin's Miss Plastique today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Alight by Fady Joudah

  • Benjamin Landry
  • November 22, 2013
Benjamin Landry reviews Fady Joudah's Alight today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Imagematic Writing

  • Jonterri Gadson
  • November 20, 2013
Screenwriter Scott Myers explains how closely poetry relates to screenwriting over on his Go Into the Story blog.
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Contrapuntal by Christopher Kondrich

  • Connor Fisher
  • November 20, 2013
Connor Fisher reviews Christopher Kondrich's Contrapuntal today in Rumpus Poetry.
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FUNNY WOMEN #110: Ten Billion Tips to Becoming a Better Writer

  • Langan Kingsley
  • November 19, 2013
There are a lot of writing tips out there, but here’s a comprehensive list from someone who’s been “there.”
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  • Thomas Page McBee

Self-Made Man #24: Love Your Emergency

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • November 19, 2013
As I look toward the East River and my teenage summers, I sometimes see my old body continuing on without me, living the slow-and-steady life I’d planned for so carefully and not this spectacular mess I’ve come, I think, to prefer.
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Virtual Seminars: Reed, Hayes, & Trethewey

  • Jonterri Gadson
  • November 18, 2013
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) sponsored program at University of Kansas, Don’t Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching African American Poetry, hosts virtual seminars with poets Nikki Giovanni, Terrance Hayes,…
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Lit-Link Round-up

  • Gina Frangello
  • November 17, 2013
I want a girl who reads. “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” by Ariel Levy. Brace yourself. And brace yourself in an entirely different way for what the big publishing looks like on…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan

  • Heather Partington
  • November 17, 2013
Ethel Rohan’s stories are snapshots. Stark vignettes. We see her characters in the middle of conflict, just at the moment of their potential undoing. In Rohan’s collection, Goodnight Nobody, she…
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LAST BOOK I LOVED: Americanah

  • Tomi Obaro
  • November 16, 2013
Tomi Obaro tells us why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's AMERICANAH is her Last Book I Loved.
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