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The gift of not responding
There’s a big secret Twitter doesn’t want you to know, as Choire Sicha writes in a recent article on The Awl. “You don’t have to respond to anyone on Twitter. Ever.” Sicha lists a number of reasons one might choose…
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A Computer Game Comes to Life
“I discovered Hitler the summer I turned twelve,” Michael Clune writes of the summer he spent playing the computer game “Beyond Castle Wolfenstein” in his Granta essay, “World War II Has Never Ended.” As the summer progresses, history is made and…
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Alice Munro Round-Up
As you may have heard by now, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature! If you are not familiar with Munro’s work, Slate has a list of her best stories to read first. Find out why The New Yorker…
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Where is the Great American Novel by a woman?
New York Times Book Review’s staff editor Jennifer Szalai and Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid take on the question: Where is the Great American Novel by a woman? In her answer Szalai writes, “Rather than agonizing over specific examples, we could…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, soon the astronauts will have microbrew beer to make. Meanwhile, elsewhere in outer space, it rains diamonds. This is seriously the 12th or so sea monsters on old maps post I’ve seen recently and I love all of…
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Open Letter from Mary Gaitskill
I hesitated to write this letter in response to Suzanne Rivecca’s essay “What Men Talk About When They Talk About Mary Gaitskill,” because I hate to appear ungrateful for Rivecca’s passionate wish to have my back.
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Technology: An Extension of Life
At The New Yorker festival this weekend, Jonathan Franzen and Clay Shirky set out to answer the question: Is technology good for culture? Reflecting on the afternoon discourse, John McDermott of The Awl writes: “Technology does not necessarily advance or…
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THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
I’ve spent plenty of nights endlessly refreshing my Twitter and Facebook feed while I’m reading or writing, in the hopes of not feeling so alone… It’s time to admit to myself that part of the reason I do this is…
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The Literary City of San Francisco
The San Francisco Chronicle has launched an online literary map. Check out the city like never before. The book editor John McMurtrie writes, “No such resource will ever be all-encompassing, but this one will change and grow with the rhythm…
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Through the Dam
We both pretended to ignore the brown bag inserted into the plastic grocery bags. We ignored my role as witness to this process.
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Searching for Dave Chappelle
“To turn his back on Hollywood, to walk away from the spotlight because it was turning him into a man he didn’t want to be—a man without dignity—was a move that was, in a way, Chappelle’s birthright, his own unwieldy…
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Tender: A quarterly journal made by women
Tender is a brand new “quarterly journal made by women” edited in the United Kingdom. The Quietus recently talked to Tender’s two founders, Sophie Collins and Rachael Allen, about the chosen name, the meaning of “female-identified” definition and which female writers…