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Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze

  • Marissa Higgins
  • March 6, 2018
Perhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
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What to Read When You Don’t Want Summer to End

  • The Rumpus
  • September 1, 2017
A list of books that take place in the summer, remind us of summer, and/or just make for great beach reads.
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The Summer of Lana Del Rey

  • Melissa Batchelor Warnke
  • July 10, 2017
Three summers ago, I did nothing but drive around Middlebury, Vermont, blasting Lana Del Rey and chain-smoking cigarettes. It was—and I will be dramatic, because that is how it felt—an…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #33: Solstice Soul Song

  • Charles Kruger
  • June 23, 2017
Today I write on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice. As someone who has been influenced by not a few pagan practitioners and Wiccan wonder workers, along…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • June 16, 2017
We’re halfway through June, and though the first day of summer isn’t technically until June 21, I think we can all agree that we’re well into the sweltering season. This week’s…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • September 23, 2016
This week (or month) in short fiction (and poetry), it’s National Translation Month! Each September, the National Translation Month (NTM) initiative, started in 2013, celebrates literary works in translation and…
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Surrealism for Summer

  • David Breithaupt
  • August 23, 2016
Over at AnOther, Carmen Gray shares five classic surrealist films that you can watch now. Don’t let your summer go blah; feed your head!
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Get Up and Go

  • David Breithaupt
  • August 9, 2016
Are you filled with seasonal summer ennui? Well, here’s a list that has something for everyone to inspire your get-up-and-go. No excuses.
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Out the Road

  • Kenneth R. Rosen
  • July 5, 2016
Long before reaching it, I knew about the end.
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The Last Book I Loved: Abbott Awaits

  • Christopher Benz
  • June 29, 2016
Summer works like this. Every day small moments cycle like waves within tides, eroding our opportunities on a geological scale invisible from our point of immersion.
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Salt

  • Eleanor Kriseman
  • June 8, 2016
Now, nothing is ever quite salty enough for you. You have been caught shaking salt onto your bread at fancy restaurants, tonguing the rim of your margarita in order not to waste even a grain.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer

  • Megan Burbank
  • May 28, 2016
Compare yourself to a raw wound. Explain that everyone else is one too, whether they know it or not.
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