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C. B. Murphy’s comic coming-of-age novel, Cute Eats Cute,takes place in the late 1990s, a time the publisher’s promotional material calls BT, or Before Texting. It’s a clever conceit, and an effective framework not only for situating the story in time but also for situating our
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A REVIEW OF GRIM TALES BY NORMAN LOCK CENTRAL QUESTION: How can prose poems compete with YouTube? Format: electronic; Size: 13,000 words on a single HTML webpage; Price: free; Publisher: Elimae; Editor: Dereon Bauman; Print run: infinite; Book design: Deron Bauman; Typeface: Times New Roman; Author on text’s
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“I’M RAW” BY FABOLOUS CENTRAL QUESTION: Is impeccable but empty rhetoric dangerous? Song length: 3:00; Video length: 4:39; Approximate number of similes in song: eleven; Celebrities referenced in song: R. Kelly, Fergie, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Alex Rodriguez, The Notorious B.I.G., Jamal Woolard, Wesley Snipes (in
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Central Question: Who was the first Wikipedia contributor? Fat times have not vanished in the United States. We still have an obesity epidemic, for one thing, and the metaphorical blubber of more digital information than anyone needs; both have grown out of the excesses of richer years. It is an
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British people who own cats usually let them outdoors. Americans in the suburbs or in dense urban neighborhoods often keep our cats inside, and if one reason is rabies (the British have none), another might be the New World animals that compete with cats for curb and can space in our yards.
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CENTRAL QUESTION: What do walnuts and poetry have in common? A walnut is a train is a poem is a heart is a shadow. Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut is avant-garde poetry that nevertheless relies on the most ageless of poetic devices: metonymy. But rather
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CENTRAL QUESTION:What can the book-publishing industry learn about the state of contemporary letters by reading blogs? EDITED BY DENNIS COOPER I wanted Userlands to be confusing and tedious, “overly digital but always disturbing and loud,” in the words of contributor Robert Siek, or emblematic of writing that accounts for
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CENTRAL QUESTION: Is mourning a form of affirmation? An argument could be made that one of the dominant styles of post-M.F.A. poetry written during the last few years is a form of modest self-exposure—a confessionalism lite—that hinges on the disclosure of some quirky individual experience or
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WRITERS ANSWER: What’s on your desk? What are you working on? Industrial aluminum tape—a variety of adhesive that doesn’t peel paint but that does administer brutal deep cuts to one’s hands—affixes scribbled upon manuscript pages and related miscellanea to the largest of my tiny apartment’