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Less Enjoyable Screen Reading and Other Apocalypses

M. Lynx Qualey — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:19:34 +0000

Last week, the UK’s National Literacy Trust released results of a survey of 35,000 UK children. Most of the headline-pullouts felt unremarkable (“on-screen reading overtakes reading in print”; “Children say they prefer to read on screen”; “4 out of 10 now own…

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Literature in Prison

M. Lynx Qualey — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:29:37 +0000

Mostly, the trope is annoying: “Juvenile offenders study Russian literature” and goodness sakes alive, lookie here, these [insert stereotype] kids are really getting something out of all that “literary fluff”! It would be more surprising, by far, if some young…

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MFA Day Job: Ideas for Your Possible Future

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:29:05 +0000

A number of my conversations with writers this year have revolved around the difficulties of securing a job in the academic world. What happens if you’re a writer and can’t get an academic job? Or what if you have other…

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Neureligion

Amit Majmudar — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:26:25 +0000

There is very little (if any) variability in the brains of human beings regarding cortical localization. That is, the motor cortex responsible for, say, left arm movement, is reliably located on the right side of the brain, and in…

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Matå’pang, Migration, and The Case of the Stolen Mangos

Craig Santos Perez — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:17:23 +0000

My favorite season is mango season. Two towering mango tress grew at my grandma’s house on the island of Guåhan. We patiently waited and watched the fruit turn from green, to yellow, to ripe red. I remember afternoons sitting around…

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What Sort of Questions ‘Should’ You Ask at a Literary Event?

M. Lynx Qualey — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:10:30 +0000

A week or so ago, I was sitting on a couch in Abu Dhabi, interviewing the Syrian novelist Nihad Sirees. We spoke for several hours: about our shared love of Egypt, about the difference between scriptwriting vs. novel-writing, about his…

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Refrigeration, The Pacific Body, and Other Perishables

Craig Santos Perez — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:42:52 +0000

Today, as I faced my refrigerator, I remember that distant afternoon when my father took me to discover ice. A super typhoon is about to hit Guam so the electricity is shut down. Dad drives us to the grocery store,…

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Miss American Sky

Natalie Shapero — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:03:02 +0000

The unlikely star of this week’s coverage of the sequester, air travel is not faring well in the press. As many news outlets have been pointing out over the past few days, the recent congressional reprieve regarding FAA budget cuts…

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Why We Chose It

David Lynn — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:11:12 +0000

By David Lynn, Editor I had never read work by Aisha Gawad before, but when I came across this passage early in her story “Waking Luna,” [now in KR, Spring 2013], I found myself captivated: I have driven here in…

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Kayla Glazer Receives S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing

Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:55:32 +0000

Kayla Glazer, a graduating senior at Thetford Academy in Thetford, Vermont, has been named the recipient of the S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing, a merit scholarship named in honor of the Kenyon president and designed to attract the…

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