Seeing (and Gazing On) Black Twitter
In the existing ways that our fashion, speech and music are ripped from our bodies and plastered as spectacle, this otherwise radical platform becomes a tool of injustice and control.…
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This Week in Short Fiction
There is a common rule in fiction writing that you should never write about dreams. It’s engraved in stone right next to “burn all adverbs.” Dreams are a lazy way…
Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
Rumpus blogger P.E. Garcia has a chapbook out from Awst Press. The title of the chapbook, US vs. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins, takes it’s inspiration from a court case concerning civil forfeiture in admiralty law. Tatiana…
Scaly Tales
Joseph Hernandez writes about family and fish in a lovely bit of short fiction for The Offing magazine.
Teaching German During the Arab Spring
Where am I from, ask the Arabs: “Woher kommen Sie, Sai-ed Maruan,” and I answer that I’m from Germany, but that I’m also from Palestine. Had I ever been to…
The Moments in the Middle
Paul Lisicky writes about those moments in our lives when we find ourselves in between: Some people carve X’s into the skin behind their knees after a breakup. Some curse…
LARB Launching Online Literary Magazine
The Los Angeles Review of Books has officially announced The Offing, a new online literary magazine that will feature poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, art, and more. The publication was announced…