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The Airship

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Calvino’s New York

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 17, 2014
Sometimes I worry that New York changes too quickly. I find myself clinging to things, silly things I wouldn’t have imagined, like the Kentile Floors sign or Joe’s Superette. “Brooklyn…
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Getting a Bootleg Up

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 9, 2014
The idea of avoiding a hangover was noble and practical and, as an avid drinker, held my interest. He pointed to a passel of jars in the corner. “Now, see…
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Pulp Racism

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 3, 2014
For The Airship, Benjamin Welton looks at the legacy of anti-Asian bigotry in popular fiction over the last century, from Dr. Fu-Manchu to the racist work of Jack London.
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Batman Saves More than Gotham

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 25, 2014
What does it take to transcend your medium into the stuff of literary value? Batman. 1986, the year both The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen were first published, can be…
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Classic Literature Or Social Construct?

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 22, 2014
Classic literature is neither timeless nor fundamental. Writing is bound by its place in history, both as we read it and as it was written, and the idea of a…
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Public and Private Literature

  • P.E. Garcia
  • September 15, 2014
Like 50 Shades of Grey? Why not try The Lover by Marguerite Duras? Freddie Moore at The Airship offers some suggestions for books you wouldn’t be embarrassed to be seen…
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Writing Blind

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 27, 2014
Writing and revising can be challenging under the best of circumstances, but imaging being unable to see the words on the page. At The Airship Daily, Tammy Ruggles writes about…
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Roald Dahl: Fighter Jet Pilot

  • Casey Dayan
  • August 6, 2014
Who would’ve thunk it? Though WWII explains the Oompa Loompas. All the same, it’s hard to imagine Dahl, Ian Fleming, and William Stephenson as contemporaries, yet the three were apparently…
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Interview with Guy Who Robs Drug Dealers

  • Casey Dayan
  • July 25, 2014
Peter Madsen: So where does this start? Brian: It starts with my moving from Long Island to Orlando, Florida. I wasn’t getting along with my immediate family, so I moved…
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Delving Head-First into Wonder

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 21, 2014
Often times readers dismiss graphic novels as too unrealistic to posses literary merit. That would be a mistake, argues Stefan A. Slater at The Airship, because reality isn’t inherently part…
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DFW and his Big Alanis Morissette Poster. (Also, Robots.)

  • Casey Dayan
  • July 16, 2014
We recently linked to a till-then undiscovered interview with David Foster Wallace. See here for something on the music he loved.
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Why is Your Keyboard Weird?

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 3, 2014
Key arrangement isn’t the only thing modern keyboards borrow from a bygone age. We get the term “shift key” from the way a Remington Model 2 Type-Writer physically shifted the…
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