February 2011
Today's YA Scene (2009) →
“Commodification happens if you begin to see the value of your creative work only...”
– Notes from Sara Zarr’s SBCWI 2011 keynote speech
“This is probably backwards thinking on my part but what really upsets me is when...”
– Apocalypstick, “Why Are You So Ugly?”
January 2011
Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? →
More from The Daily Rumpus
I wish instead of starting a war Donald Rumsfeld had given relationship advice. This is what he would have said: In love there are things you know, and things you don’t know, and things you don’t know you don’t know. You can’t share your feelings with your lover when you don’t know what those feelings are. Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip...
“Art is expression, art is laziness. Art is a rejection of capitalism. Lay on the...”
– Stephen Elliot’s The Daily Rumpus
“There was a time when you had to earn the right to draft a memoir, by...”
– The Problem With Memoirs
Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake do hip hop (2010) →
Molly Lambert: In Which We Pay Mind To Author... →
“Writing historical fiction is the easiest way to escape the Now; to avoid...”
– How novels came to terms with the internet
“In the late 1990s, a down-at-heel ’hood in New York’s Lower East Side became an...”
– A hipster’s paradise
“That’s why it is very difficult to be a true snob before the age of 9 or...”
– The Unholy Pleasure: My life-long recovery from snobbery
“But on a Sunday morning when I want to grab an omelette over girl talk, I’m at a...”
– MWF Seeking BFF blog
“In order for me, and millions of people both in treatment and out, to live the...”
– Bassey Ikpi, “A Chance to Change the Way We Look at Mental Illness”
“Do students write stories because they really want to or because the workshop...”
– The Story Problem: 10 Thoughts on Academia’s Novel Crisis
“Superpowers are abilities uncommon to the average human. There are different...”
– Comic Vine wiki on types of super powers
Irony Is Good!
Irony, put simply, is a gap between words and their meaning, a space across which speaker and listener exchange a knowing wink. For this knowingness to be mutual, a web of common experiences and beliefs must exist, within which language adopts deeper echoes and associations. In China, however, the Communist Party has made quite clear that there is no commonality but that of the party and its...
Jezebel: A Guide to Flirting →
“We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few...”
– Social Animal: How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life.Read more
““He took advantage of her.”
It was a phrase that they taught you to keep...”
– The Hazards of Duke: A now infamous Powerpoint presentation exposes a lot about men, women, sex, and alcohol — and how universities are letting their female students down.
How Boomboxes Changed the Streets Forever →
mama needs a functioning address book →
ashleyyang:
“i sent you four job listings, you didn’t get them?”
recently in yahoo mail, my mom types in an email address but it doesn’t autocomplete for her like usual. this has led to emails in her sent folder addressed to the following addresses (in order):
ashelyyang331@gmail.com
ashleyyang331@yahoo.com
ashleyyang@gmail.com
all.
valid.
email addresses.
agh
“now you have...
“The elitism charge mostly exempts those who’ve been to expensive colleges so...”
– Revolt of the Elites
“To secure permission to use the 373 samples on “All Day” would cost, Gillis...”
– Girl Talk: The 373-Hit Wonder (via RNA)
AArisings: Celebrating its 21st Year! →
aarising:
I recently celebrated a birthday and it suddenly dawned on me that for nearly half of my life, and very nearly my entire adult life, I have been keeping AArisings alive. Of course,…
“Well, why am I writing this letter? Because I am desperate. Most of my days are...”
– A year after a young woman at Harvard killed her roommate and then took her own lift, questions remain about why it happened, and whether it had to. (1996) And Sinedu’s letter
NPR interviews Hyphen's Lisa Lee on Asian... →
Should I Self Publish? A motherf@*!ing checklist... →
