On Friday Twitter announced their new Twitter Fiction Festival, a “virtual storytelling celebration.” The festival will feature “creative experiments in storytelling from authors around the world,” and you can submit story proposals over here.
Twitter Fiction Festival
Teju Cole’s Photography
Amitava Kumar writes complementary text for Open City author Teju Cole’s photography exhibit. You can check out Cole’s Flickr page over here.
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Not Literary, But Awesome
Russian scientists claim they'll be able to clone a mammoth "within 5 years."
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The Hip House Guest
Recommended Reading: Tyler Stoddard Smith's essay on when Allen Ginsberg stayed with his family. "The following night, after Ginsberg’s poetry reading (why would I want to go to that?) a group of students eager for him to impart morsels of omniscience were forced to wait outside my room while we played video games on my Atari 2600—I destroyed Ginsberg at Frogger, but he eviscerated me on Combat."
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