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Forming this group was probably some type of release valve for my own pent up rage over the oil gushing into our waters. [Read more]

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Meg Pokrass: Okla-can you tell us about your “unusual” path to becoming a poet and writer? Mine was an early life in theater, and I love to learn how people find their eventual thing. And in your case, things! Clearly, you wear many creative hats…
Okla Elliott: It’s hard to trace these sorts of developments, to [...]

Did discussion of The Paris Review un-acceptance business get a bit too feverish last week on the internet? Perhaps. [Read more]

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With voices so real they could be memories, and natural images so strong you can almost smell them, this short piece evokes the best of childhood before digital communication – and serves as a vital reminder that the friends and the frogs are still there for our children now. [Read more]

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Read lots on the internet but don’t have seven tabs open while you’re trying to read a goddamn story. Show some respect. Ditto for your own work. Respect the fact that stories are how the world happens in the human brain. This is science. We are doing work at the foremost thrust of science. [Read more]

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I was creative for about 15 minutes in 1987. Unfortunately, I didn’t write anything down, and now it’s gone. Everyone I know is more creative than me. [Read more]

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Gulf Coast lit mag from Houston is running a “Gulf Coast Clean-up” subscription drive. That’s right: two birds, one stone. Give money to Gulf Coast clean up efforts and get some great reading. [Read more]

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Rose Metal is a fusible alloy with a low melting point consisting of 50%

bismuth, 25-28% lead, and 22-25% tin. [

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Beattie
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The writers who really grab me are do the unexpected. I really enjoy experiments with form, like Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves; experiments with voice, like Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End; experiments with lyric, like Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica and Carole Maso’s The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. [Read more]

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This strange business at Mississippi Review—a magazine described by Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Charles Simic, and others as one of the best mags in the country—has been lost in all the hullabaloo going on at The University of Southern Mississippi, host of the magazine. [Read more]

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