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Problem Solving: Part 1
When we talk about issues of representation, many editors say, “Where do I find writers of color?” I’d like to start to answer that question by compiling a working list of writers of color, across genres. Please feel free to…
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Art as Witness
“I believe Nina Simone tried to build that gun because that night she realized what all other-ed bodies eventually realize: a gun was already at her head. She feared a song might not be enough. The fact that this gun…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A 50-million-year-old turtle orgy. Turns out most people would like more meat in their antibiotics. Or fewer antibiotics in their meat. What was that book?
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Lonely Art
“…Loneliness is a word — easily enough spoken or written, like death or love – but really it’s a deep sadness, which is also a force, driving so many of our desires and actions, and at the same time shameful…
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Don’t “Do” Rome
At Full Stop, Stephanie Bernhard writes about why we shouldn’t “do” cities. “To suggest that a city or site can be “done,” like dishes, the laundry, or homework, reduces said city to the limits of the do-er’s consciousness or experience.”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“If an intelligent life form has built a spaceship, there’s the question of ‘why not make it out of stone or coral?’” Good question. Is there an alien spaceship at the bottom of the Baltic? In scientific search for the perfect pop…
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Juneteenth
In honor of Juneteenth, The Root investigates “the blurred line of emancipation in America,” from 1883 through the present. Feministing breaks down the wording of the Emancipation Proclamation, shedding light on “the legacy language of race talk.”
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Chuck Palahniuk’s “victims of his gore-filled prose”
On June 11, Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke, published Invisible Monsters Remix, a director’s cut of the novel in which “the reader is made to jump back and forth to different chapters rather than read in a linear…
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The Death (and Rebirth?) of the Book Review
Why review books? At The Awl, Jane Hu takes a historical approach to answering that question. Quoting writers from Alexander Pope to Jonathan Franzen, Hu argues that the apparently ever-progressing “death” of the book review is perhaps a more nuanced…
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The Latest Diary of Adrian Mole, Coming of (Middle) Age
Adrian Mole, protagonist of the coming-of-age novels The Adrian Mole Diaries, faces adult problems in Sue Townsend’s latest book, the 10th in the series. “Having had his first incarnation aged 13 ¾, when spots, poetry and his parents’ behavior were among…
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“I’m a highway and landscapes. You’re a city and painted bricks and lots of people.”
New Yorker columnist Ben Greenman has transcribed bits of an interview that took place at this year’s BookExpo America between Patti Smith and Neil Young, on the subject of Young’s forthcoming memoir Waging Heavy Peace. Smith, whose own 2010 memoir…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Whoa: “Then everything will be frozen, like a snapshot of one instant, for ever.” Aliens of yore. The Story of Stuff looks to change. The first alternative-fuel gas station has arrived.