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Exclamation Points Are Feminist!
Friendly emails are a sign of progress, not weakness, in our working lives. Policing women’s use of language is over (we wish). But at the Huffington Post, Angelina Chapin argues that women’s use of exclamation marks in the workplace represents…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #9: Punk the Deadline!
Oh my god, I’m stuck again. A truck in the muck. A cat up a tree. An explorer in quicksand. Winnie the Pooh in the door of Rabbit’s house. Trying to birth a column and needing a Caesarean. Is there…
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This Week in Short Fiction
Autumn is the season of change and, some say, death, as the leaves turn, the air cools, and the nights lengthen. Likewise, Halloween is not just a holiday for costumes and candy but also, at its untouched roots, a day…
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Native Writers to the Front
Over at Electric Literature, Nicole Reber interviews Elissa Washuta about her experience as a Native writer navigating indifferent and tokenizing responses to her work, and the hybrid nature of her own writing style.
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Walk-In Closets
We seem to find ourselves, as writers, standing amidst the last century’s discarded tropes of sexual identity. Recently, writers of all sexual permutations have been recycling this narrative architecture; reworking its stones and walls and windows; borrowing and transforming the…
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Notable Chicago: 11/4–11/10
Friday 11/4: Lori Tharps reads from her new book Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday 11/5: Head to the Book Cellar to celebrate the releases of El…
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Queering the Canon
For VICE, Lindsay King-Miller examines the literary tradition of retelling and reworking classic stories and the importance of bringing queer arcs in particular to our old standbys: Revisiting a story gives us an opportunity to explore universal experiences from the…
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The Editing of Anne Frank’s Diary Was Sexist
There’s something very unsettling about the idea of editing someone’s personal and autobiographical journal. After all, it’s supposed to be a portal into the past: Anne’s experience in the annex, exactly what happened exactly as it happened. At The Establishment,…
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Investigating the Network Form
At the Los Angeles Review Of Books, Mary Pappalardo reviews Patrick Jagoda’s Network Aesthetics, an examination of networked art from Syriana to alternate reality games: Networked narrative forms—the novel, the film, the television drama—represent and help to create our sense…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the weekend, let’s talk about the science of earworms. Here’s your Soviet architecture and murals for the day. What is life but a naked black hole screaming through the universe? Actually important units of measurement news.
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Interactive Fiction for the Digital Age
For Vocativ, Allee Manning speaks with novelist-turned-digital-publisher Sean Michaels, creator of The Seers Catalogue, an “interactive piece of narrative literature” that has reimagined the old-school click-through Internet mysteries (door one or two?) into complex interactive fiction for the digital age. Readers…
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“Housefulls, Churchfulls, Airportsfull”
In an extended essay in the New Yorker, Megan Marshall, author of the forthcoming Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, writes about Bishop’s late, serendipitous move to Harvard where she met Alice Methfessel, a young “house secretary” who would become her…