Pacific Standard
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Pristine California
Seen from the vantage point of this blank grave, and the ruin that came before it, Watkins’ life feels like something out of Dreiser. Seen from its beginning—the summers in Oneonta, the trip West with his best friend—it reads like…
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The Library As Safety Net
Francie Diep writes for Pacific Standard on how public libraries in Los Angeles are handling the state-of-emergency-level homeless population.
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You Are Not Like Other Children
You are not like the other children. You can’t get into the same juvenile mischief your white friends get into. You represent something more than yourself and your family when you are outside this house. You will have to be…
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3-D Printers Modernize Libraries
American libraries have always been a place for ideas and the exchange of knowledge. In recent years, libraries have invested in computers and other new technologies. One of those popular technologies has been 3-D printers. Now, libraries with those tools…
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This Week in Short Fiction
Just when you thought you had a full biblio of Shakespeare’s plays, up pops another. Tom Jacobs wrote earlier this week for Pacific Standard on Double Falsehood, a play found nearly a century after Shakespeare’s death and now believed to…
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The Man Who Wrote About Goats
Ever wondered how the Icelandic goats in Games of Thrones almost went extinct? Justin Taylor did, and he explores the answer at Pacific Standard.
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Modern Man Defined
Yesterday, Rumpus columnist Thomas Page McBee kicked off his new series, “The American Man,” over at the Pacific Standard. Featuring “gonzo reporting from barber shops, boxing gyms, frat houses, and other bastions of masculinity in an effort to define what…
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The Emancipation of Digital Reading?
Is it possible to read War and Peace on an iPhone? In the Pacific Standard, Casey Cepp considers whether apps can actually help us become better, more thoughtful readers: This literary diet will not be for everyone. But the emancipation of digital reading habits, like those of…
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You’re Missing Out, America
In our interview with Molly Antopol, when discussing readership of Israeli literature in the United States, Antopol says, “I have all these smart friends who love books and love international fiction, and whenever we talk about Israeli literature, it’s Etgar…