The Hemingway Papers
The Toronto Star‘s well-designed archive of Ernest Hemingway’s newspaper articles for the Canadian paper provides access to evidence of the young author honing his spartan style and exploring his favorite…
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“I Was There”
William Dereseiwicz’s luminous response to Kurt Vonnegut’s oeuvre recently printed by the Library of America, is a critique as much as it is hero-worship. Dereseiwicz confronts Vonnegut’s novels from his earliest to…
Risky Moves
Granta interviews Tania James whose collection Aerogrammes and Other Stories is out this month. James discusses writing from a child’s perspective, scriptology, and the short form. “Certainly novels can and…
What About the Sky?
According to scholars, Homer never mentioned the color blue in any of his works; neither did the Bible, nor an abundance of ancient texts. Also, linguists have found a near-universal…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look, it’s my birthday! Maybe you feel like donating to my band’s new kickstarter campaign? I’m sorry, I won’t mention it again. Deserted shopping malls are the ancient ruins…
Going Back to Bed
“Someday they’ll say Bukowski knew. Lay down for three of four days to get your juices back—then get up, look around and do it… But who the hell can do…
Transitions
At The Boston Phoenix, Rumpus contributor Thomas Page McBee writes about undergoing his own transition while making sense of the many public stories of transgender people that also occurred throughout…
Stories and Tools
At The New York Times, David Carr takes a closer look at the blend of business, journalism and software that characterizes Brooklyn-based multimedia storytelling platform-cum-publisher, The Atavist. “Part of the…
Recommended Reading Launch
Recommended Reading, Electric Literature’s free digital magazine, has been released! The inaugural story comes from Ben Marcus. “If my mother knew that she only needed to survive for just under…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I can’t believe it took me so long to check for Big Picture’s eclipse photos. This has been a weird week for things on auction. exhibit b: Reagan’s blood. Holy…
“CeCe Is Being Punished for Not Being Killed”
“Recent research and reports on violence against transgender women have found that, in 2010, 44 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-affected hate-crime murder victims were trans women. In…
On Gender Bias and Identity Lit
At Full Stop, Stephanie Bernhard weighs in on the literary gender imbalance, arguing that today’s literary marketplace is “identity-driven,” which makes it more difficult for women writers to succeed. “Our…