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the American Reader

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Reality Scooped: Talking with Tony Tulathimutte

  • Erica Berry
  • June 19, 2017
Recent Whiting Award winner Tony Tulathimutte discusses his first novel, Private Citizens, the state of satire in 2017, “booby-trapping” identity politics, and productivity in the Internet age.
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Shots in the Dark

  • P.E. Garcia
  • January 16, 2015
For The American Reader, Adrian Van Young examines the pervasiveness of gun violence in fiction and how it relates to the brutality of the real world.
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Appropriating Rural Poverty

  • P.E. Garcia
  • December 5, 2014
We’re living in a golden decade for rural escapist fare: the latest, most extreme iteration of a cultural construct that effectively removes people living there from society’s list of concerns.…
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Two Sides to Some Stories

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 27, 2014
Because we’re not expecting it, because the diptych hasn’t yet become a tired form in narrative, I think the diptych challenges and transforms traditional narrative, that is, story built around…
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The Power of Print

  • Alex Norcia
  • September 18, 2014
As reported a week or so ago by Joe Pompeo at Capital, The American Reader plans to abandon its digital platform and turn all of its focus toward print.
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A Puzzling Gender Gap

  • P.E. Garcia
  • August 19, 2014
When I was twenty, I submitted a puzzle that [Will Shortz] rejected. He cited MALE GAZE among the entries he found unworthy of publication. I don’t doubt that a woman…
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The Life and Death of Twerk

  • P.E. Garcia
  • August 5, 2014
The American Reader has a new series examining the lifespan of American slang. In the first installment, Michael Reid Roberts looks at the history of “shade” and “twerk.”
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Memory Loss

  • Guia Cortassa
  • May 1, 2014
These days, memorization, like corporal punishment, is something our culture has largely evolved beyond. We might all know the first verse of Jane Taylor’s “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” but beyond…
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Read (and listen to) Long Meadow!

  • Ashley Perez
  • October 29, 2013
Artist/Poet Jon Cotner has a poem, “Long Meadow,” over at The American Reader. Not only can you read this amazing poem but it has audio! I still have yet to   …
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“So Are You Helpless, Tragic, or Stupid?”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 22, 2013
You may remember, from when it was featured on Longform.org, Vanessa Veselka’s GQ essay “The Truck Stop Killer,” about her life as a teenage hitchhiker and her narrow escape from a…
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