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What I’m reading and listening to this week The Silent Woman by...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:00:00 -0400

What I’m reading and listening to this week

The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt
“The Walking Alive” by Susan Orlean
“Just Drive” by Gary Shteyngart
Longform Podcast: Jonathan Shainin by Longform
“Gerwig, Baumbach Poke At Post-College Pangs” on Fresh Air by NPR (above)

'Love has won out over hate': France becomes 14th country to allow gay marriage

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:15:52 -0400

'Love has won out over hate': France becomes 14th country to allow gay marriage

Random journalism tip: When you’re in a new city, take public transportation. It’s a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:20 -0400

Random journalism tip: When you’re in a new city, take public transportation. It’s a...

When someone calls me instead of emailing me

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:20 -0400

When someone calls me instead of emailing me

aauw: This anti-domestic violence ad is running in Saudi...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:19 -0400

aauw:

This anti-domestic violence ad is running in Saudi Arabia. The text reads “Some things can’t be covered. Fighting women’s abuse together.”

"What made my first year of full-time freelancing so happy, besides not ever having to ride the..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:13 -0400

“What made my first year of full-time freelancing so happy, besides not ever having to ride...

What was the last story you wrote that made you worry about how readers would react? Did you make any changes while writing it as a result?

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:22 -0400

Interesting question! To be honest, I’m always a little bit worried about how readers will...

zap2it: “‘The Office’ made all my dreams come true. When I...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:18:25 -0400

zap2it:

“‘The Office’ made all my dreams come true. When I moved to Los Angeles to be an actress, all I wanted to do was to be part of a group of people on a really funny show that I truly loved. And it came true. That’s a really powerful thing, to be a little girl and wish for this thing and then have it happen. I got to be on the ‘Cheers’ of my generation. John and I got to be Sam and Diane, which is what I wanted more than anything.” — Jenna Fischer

Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on “Likeability”

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:47:43 -0400

Eff yeah, Claire Messud! newyorker: Our Page-Turner blog asked a group of novelists how often the...

she-works: KF, Hastings, NE We want to hear from women: What’s...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:11 -0400

she-works:

KF, Hastings, NE

We want to hear from women: What’s your note to self – a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Share your advice at http://she-works.tumblr.com

onaissues: The New Yorker has introduced Strongbox, a tool for...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:34:38 -0400

onaissues:

The New Yorker has introduced Strongbox, a tool for users to submit documents and correspondence without fear of being traced. Amy Davidson notes in her description of the tool that readers and sources have sent materials to the New Yorker for decades, but now, more than ever, it’s easier to trace where they came from. She writes, “[A]s it’s set up, even we won’t be able to figure out where files sent to us come from. If anyone asks us, we won’t be able to tell them.”

The tool was created by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. The image above, created by the New Yorker, demonstrates how it works.

Read more: Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing : The New Yorker

Jesus, My Struggling Writer Friends Never Shut Up!

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400

Jesus, My Struggling Writer Friends Never Shut Up!: So funny and so brilliant. Heather Havrilesky,...

"The flight left Los Angeles at 3:30 p.m. and was scheduled to land at New York City’s John F...."

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:28:52 -0400

“The flight left Los Angeles at 3:30 p.m. and was scheduled to land at New York City’s...

Questions, anyone?

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:29:48 -0400

Questions, anyone?

"What about sacrificing a salary to do more flexible and fun work? As alluring as that sounds, the..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:27:00 -0400

“What about sacrificing a salary to do more flexible and fun work? As alluring as that sounds,...

timeshaiku: A haiku from the article: Marc Maron’s New Memoir...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:22 -0400

timeshaiku:

A haiku from the article: Marc Maron’s New Memoir is ‘Attempting Normal’

"Editing is everything. Writing a first draft is akin to moving a big block of marble into a..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:11 -0400

“Editing is everything. Writing a first draft is akin to moving a big block of marble into a...

theparisreview: We are honored to guest edit Electric...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:36:09 -0400

theparisreview:

We are honored to guest edit Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading today.

The winner of this year’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction, Ottessa Moshfegh’s “Bettering Myself” is a story, as editor Lorin Stein notes, that “improves (and makes me laugh) each time I read it.”

Check out Ottessa Moshfegh’s “Bettering Myself” here.

Flavorwire announces a short fiction contest. Full details...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:19 -0400

Flavorwire announces a short fiction contest. Full details here.

Flavorwire is thrilled to announce its first-ever short fiction contest. In honor of May’s National Short Story Month, we’re offering a prize of $500 for one outstanding short story. To enter, simply send a story of 5,000 words or less — in the body of a message, not as an attachment — along with a brief author bio and all relevant contact information to flavorwirefiction@gmail.com by Friday, May 17. Flavorwire Literary Editor Emily Temple will judge all entries and announce the results on the 24th. We’ll publish the winning story, along with a handful of honorable mentions, on Flavorwire throughout the final week of May.

Angelina Jolie’s Surgery

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:13 -0400

newyorker: Jolie’s medical decision says again what shouldn’t need re-saying: that a woman’s body...