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Got a Question? Ask a Slave
Azie Dungey started her acting career as “the time-traveling black girl”: she played “every black woman of note that ever lived” in regional theaters and at historic sites around Washington, DC. One of those roles—as a slave at George Washington’s…
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Ed Hardy: Way Cooler than You Knew
Did you know Ed Hardy is not just a brand name, but an actual person? And that after becoming “the first Westerner to work with a traditional Japanese master” of tattoo art, he led the “current tattoo renaissance” with an…
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Less Face, More Book for These Reclusive Authors
Though it can be hard to remember between tweeting at your favorite writer and joining a Facebook event page for a reading, there was a time when many authors led reclusive lives with minimal self-promotion. Bookish has rounded up a…
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The Only Woman in the Room
At the Tazewell County Justice Center, on a Monday night in May, five women gather for a creative-writing class. They microwave plastic cups of instant coffee, then drag chairs up to the conference table where we’ll write.
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Aleksandar Hemon Reading
Aleksandar Hemon—Bosnian ex-pat, MacArthur genius grant recipient, and Rumpus interviewee—will be reading and signing books September 18th and 19th at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose. The event on the 19th even puts Hemon in conversation…
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Margaret Atwood’s Brilliant Book Riot Guest Post
Did you see that guest-poster over at Book Riot? She’s some young upstart named Margaret Atwood with some crazy ideas about horror, terror, genre fiction, and literary fiction. To add to that, the complete Edgar Allan Poe was in the…
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Giving Editors What They Want
For emerging writers, submitting pieces to literary magazines can be like hacking through a jungle of confusion with a guess-machete. This piece from The Review Review, titled “What Editors Want,” will clear a path straight through for you. A teaser: If…
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Gentrification and Diaspora in San Francisco
We are waiting to see if the city will understand what the community already does: that Marcus Books is a historical landmark; that it is San Francisco; that it is the Fillmore’s best self. If they do, perhaps the store…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
J.D. Okhai Ojeikere has been photographing Nigerian women’s sculptural hair since the 1960s. Don’t worry about space brains. Don’t do it! “Be a Tightwad” and other 1920s motivational posters. Seriously guys, what is with this weird web tower? Kitsault, BC…
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A Scary Story with Lauren O’Neal
Listen to our very own editorial assistant Lauren O’Neal read her story “The Thing About Ghosts” on the Story Tapes podcast. After her story, she talks with host Eliza Smith about how her approach to flash fiction allows readers to extrapolate the…
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The Essence of Housesitting
Writer and dog bite victim Brian Blanchfield’s essay “On Housesitting” has successfully captured the essence of a job that mainly involves “passing keys, leaving notes,” and covering “all traces of yourself.”