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Roxane Gay Fights the Good Fight
The Los Angeles Times has a great overview of our essays editor Roxane Gay’s latest efforts to spread diversity in the publishing world: “We can’t think of gender without also considering race, class, sexuality and ability,” Gay says. “As long as…
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Tales from the Shanghai Book Fair
If the expo serves as any indication, Shanghai has considerably more book enthusiasts than I had suspected, even though just a couple of days earlier The Atlantic had published an article about the decline of reading in China. For the LA…
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The Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Smithsonian looks at the very first Syrian chemical attack. Have you ever seen an albino humpback whale? It’s a pretty great thing. If any of you readers love me you’ll buy this fossilised dinosaur battle for me. The secret to…
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(Forcibly) Leaving Home Behind
In an essay from High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing, retired city worker and community organizer Dolores Wilson recalls the heartbreaking process she faced after being relocated from her soon-to-be demolished public housing high rise.
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No More MPDG!
Continuing yesterday’s conversation on gender in writing, Ester Bloom explores the rare success of men writing women outside of the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” (MPDG) box. Ester is looking for raw, vital, and tragic female characters, traits that she feels…
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Syrians United Through Poetry
In a country where censorship prevents many from saying what they feel, a new type of Syrian poetry is now being chanted in the streets and shared through social media. The poetry shows a “newfound emphasis on a united Syrian…
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The Return of the “WRITE LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER” TEE
After a long, shirtless hiatus, we’re excited to announce that our fabulous Write Like a Motherfucker tees are back in stock!
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A Novel for Selfie Enthusiasts
HOUSEFIRE Books has released a collaborative novel called SELFIES. The novel “is an interactive multimedia project and conceptual performance piece designed to unfold a shared story of contemporary loneliness.” Read the first seven chapters here.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is totes time to turn part of 280 into a High Line style park. Oh my gosh everyone, there are so many humpback whales in the Monterey Bay right now! This article is about rich people pooping in space.…
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First-Class Guilt
But I had deployed only once to Iraq. When so many others, including friends of mine, had suffered two, three, four, five, or more deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, why should I be the one enjoying the comfort of flying…
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A Stroll with Murakami
In his new essay, Haruki Murakami took a break from marathon running to enjoy a leisurely stroll around Ashiya, an earthquake-damaged place he once called his hometown. He finds a town scarred by natural disaster, a town he wrestles to…
