June 2011
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SWELL OUT zine →
So this is the baby we’ve been nursing all year. Tash designs! Nathania inspires! I get deeply, deeply neurotic.
In the lead up to the launch we’re posting work by some of the super talented and creative people contributing to our zine. Check it out! You won’t find anything that’s going into the first issue—you’ll need to pick up a printed copy to see for...
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I sit outside this shit so i guess that makes me a...
swellout:
from where i sit it seems that people stand on maps and fret that they will trip down cliffs or streams if they’re not careful where they step so they always stick to the marked paths, the paved driveways and backyards. and yet the paper rips, it tears and folds beneath the safest lines creating contours where the worried walked before a thousand times - these hordes gingerly tread...
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If you’re 22 and want to be a writer, you have no...
You have to hustle. That means getting up and working, usually all alone in a room, and being rejected and told that what you wrote wasn’t right, and having to do it again and again and again. And again and again and again. And then when you’re being told that you’re really good and special you still have to get up and hustle more, every day. You have to chase down editors and cheques and...
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“AVC: You’ve employed a lot of female writers, in both seasons. That’s not true...”
– Dan Harmon walks us through Community’s second season (part 2 of 4)
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Today A Man Touched Me On The Subway And So I Hit...
katespencer:
I’m writing this on the R train as it rattles slowly along toward Brooklyn. I’m headed to pick up my 6-month-old daughter. I’m writing because I’m still reeling from what occurred on the Times Square subway platform a few moments ago. I was walking to the end of the station as I always do. I saw a man, a stout, balding, nondescript looking troll, staring at me as I walked toward...
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how did u get your start as a writer?
jawnita:
Wow. If you want to know when I first got serious about wanting to be a writer, it was when I was 17 and funneled most of the money I earned as a Subway sandwich artist into printing my own fanzine. I didn’t go to college (did my music/skateboarding fanzine eat my tuition?!) and self-published for a long time until I moved to PDX OR and got the cojones to send a query to the weekly...
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Let's make a mess
jamesnord:
Sleep with someone you aren’t sure you should, take a job without knowing where it leads, tell her she looks great when she talks about cooking, tell him he looks sad when he drives his car, don’t put things away, take road trips without directions, forget to lock the doors and let’s not say no.
Cleanliness is the hobgoblin of memorable lives, so let’s all make a mess of things.
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“Four years since my last Murakami book, I now see his books being read...”
– If you get a chance, read Grace Jung’s essay “Why I (Now) Avoid Reading Murakami” at Thought Catalog. (via 52books)
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“I would love for someone to define sentimental writing once and for all. Is...”
– Roxane Gay talks women’s writing. That should be in air quotes, really. Sentimental, Narrow, Women’s Writing. Alas, Alack, Anon! | HTMLGIANT (via irunfrombears)
thisislobster: I have never read anything by Naipaul and don’t think I will, to be honest. And, yes, it’s now because of his recent... 