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After 1984, There Was 1983
Think of the year 1984 and your mind can’t help but jump to great books, thanks to George Orwell’s dystopic classic. But what about 1983? To put some sparkle back in 1983’s literary eye, the AV Club rounded up ten…
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Master of Feeling Ambivalent
There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about MFA programs, but Blake Butler’s Vice piece “What I Remember from Getting an MFA in Creative Writing,” just sort of lays out the details and holds back on the…
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August Kleinzahler and Alec Soth in SF
Bay Area readers won’t want to miss this City Arts event with poet/essayist August Kleinzahler and photographer/publisher Alec Soth. They’ll be at the Nourse Theater in November, talking with award-winning San Francisco writer Steven Winn about the latest in their…
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NYRB Joins LRB in Hole, Helps Keep Digging
As we’ve documented pretty extensively before, arts organization VIDA has done a lot to expose gender inequality in the writing world with its annual count comparing female bylines to male ones in a number of publications. The New York Review of Books‘ ratio has…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the age of impossible space missions. New railroad lines are great for archaeology. I guess I’ll link to this thing on the future of skate parks too. Photos of history’s greatest failed explorers. Don’t worry, we’re not running…
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Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker!
Dorothy Parker, American writer, editor, and critic, was born today in 1893. Parker wrote fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays (including A Star is Born, for which she received an Oscar nomination), and is remembered in particular for her acid wit. A…
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Vela Magazine Lists the Unlisted
As part of its ongoing battle to get women writers the recognition they deserve, Vela has put together a “list of women writers of various forms of creative nonfiction that future list-makers and anthologists…might peruse and thereby make their “bests” and “greats”…
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“Sabotage” Video Recreated by Coolest Librarians Ever
You gotta fight! For your right! To check out books and return them by their due date! Some librarians who are cooler than everyone else in the world decided to remake the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” video but with tough-love librarians…
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Alaska Native Culture as a Game—But Not a Joke
If you liked reading about narrative video games about the trans experience, you’re sure to enjoy this Polygon piece on “the first indigenous-owned games company in the United States.” Like a heist movie, the essay introduces the players (an Alaska…
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What’s a 5-Letter Word for “Sexism”?
Months ago, we blogged about a mind-blowing New Yorker story on the crazy world of high-level crossword puzzle competitions. For crossword coverage that isn’t multiple years old, check out this Hairpin piece on the shrinking role of women in the field. A…
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What Words Used to Look Like
If Rumpus readers have one thing in common, it’s that we all love words—their meanings, their sounds, even their shapes. If you have a particular affection for the way words look, you might enjoy TypeHunting, a collection of pictures of…
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This Prince Interview Is Everything You Hoped For
In honor of Prince joining Twitter—you can follow him at @3RDEYEGIRL, where he tweets things like “PRINCE’S 3RD TWEET: DID EYE ADD 2 MUCH PEPPER? pic.twitter.com/3jfe3rb41g“—take a look at Vanessa Grigoriadis’s recent interview with His Purpleness for V Magazine. They…