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“Not Where They Hoped They’d Be”
The Atlantic captures photographs of graduates who have been unable to find a job in their fields of study and now find themselves in underpaid service sector jobs. “From a cook in Athens with a degree in civil engineering to…
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The Moth Magic
“Each time I listen to a story told aloud, and feel that direct connection with the teller, I am reminded of what a story, well told, can do.” Nathan Englander writes a love letter to the Moth — from the…
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Tourney of Bookshit
HTML Giant‘s Tournament of Bookshit, now six months deep into its hilarious ramble, has just announced its Final 4: Semi #1 – Alcoholism vs. “everybody has a story”, judged by Jennifer L. Knox. Semi #2 – Calling anything you write…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe the cave painters were Neanderthals. Plants are talking about you behind your back. Great Titan’s lake! A year inside a 10 year’s old pocket. Let’s all look at Beunos Aires’ abandoned classic cars.
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Love Under Empire
Triple Canopy excerpts Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, translated by Ariana Reines. The book, originally published in France in 1999, is out this month from Semiotext(e). “The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently,…
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Interview with a John
Remember how MetaFilter linked to Antonia Crane’s “Paying to Play: Interview with a John”? The piece inspired an interesting conversation that’s still going down over there. Check it out? “I think part of what makes this piece successful is that…
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Suspended Detachment
“I know that those things, that scarf, that painting, that kimono, that ring, that past self—whatever happens to them physically, they exist for as long as I can remember them, or am capable of remembering that I once remembered them,…
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Grief as a Living Thing
“I’ve never read anything like it,” writes Morgan Macgregor in a LARB review of Sara Manguso’s The Guardians. “The prose also seems to include the reader by spinning relentlessly in every direction, turning up every rock, playing with the language…
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Where Things Stand
Andrew Sullivan linked to Roxane Gay’s “Where Things Stand,” which revealed that nearly 90% of books reviewed in The New York Times were written by white authors. Amanda Hess also wrote about the piece, elaborating on the distinct conversations around…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s the thing you guys, talking robot baby. The history of maps is one of my favorite things. A man-made object is about to leave the solar system for the very first time. These book sculptures are pretty neat. Everyone…
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Ben Lerner in The New Yorker
“In the name of clarity, a lot of authors offer what strike me as basically pre-fabricated structures of feeling, leaving no room for the reader to participate in the construction of meaning.” Ben Lerner, poet and author of Leaving the…
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The Utopian Project
“In relation to the future, a poem is like a note sealed in a bottle and thrown into the sea.” Charles Simic writes on Poetry and Utopia for the New York Review of Books.