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Join NOW!This was the trouble with bringing a gun to work: you couldn’t stop thinking about it. This understatement comes from “Rutting Season,” a story by Mandeliene Smith in this week’s new issue of Guernica that flirts with every office worker’s worst nightmare—or secret fantasy—while exploring the divide between the public persona and the private self. […]
...moreIt’s Friday! And it’s the summer! Are you sitting in your cubicle feeling the same joy Kassia Miller writes about at McSweeney’s? And when it’s summer in the office, I get to break out all my favorite summer clothes: my lighter-weight wool pants, conservative button-up shirts with cap sleeves instead of long sleeves, and my […]
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Poet Victoria Chang talks about the process behind writing her newest collection, The Boss, what it’s like to balance a nine-to-five office job with your craft, and intimidatingly good-looking crowds at small-press poetry readings.
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