OK, it’s not exactly “literary,” but nevertheless I promise that “Upworthy Springfield” is worth your time.
He Linked To A Site That Wasn’t Literary. What Happened Next Will Shock You.
The Faces of War
Photographer Lalage Snow photographed Scottish soldiers before, during, and after their deployments to Afghanistan. The photographs show "the toll that fighting ... takes on our troops."
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I Love Candy
"I wanted to tell him: Shut up! You’re ruining my high. People fall in love every single day." A delightful little Dentist Poem by Daisy Friedman from the archives of The Paris Review.
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The Investigation of Feeling
“I think it’s important that poets exist in societies because they exist in the realm of affect. Feeling is important to them. How people feel, what they feel, what breaks them, how trauma resonates through their lives... that’s a legitimate space in poetry. It’s a legitimate space for investigation.” Aaron Coleman interviews Citizen author Claudia Rankine about intimacy, her writing process, and her experience in an MFA program.
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The Humanity of Books
"To me a book is not just a particular file. It’s connected with personhood. Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say. And what I’m concerned with is when Silicon Valley looks at books, they often think of them as really differently as just data points that you can mush together. They’re divorcing books from their role in personhood." Digital pioneer and theorist Jaron Lanier fears that the Internet might be destroying not just literature, but also the middle class.
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Glenn Greenwald to Write a Book
“Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first reported on a trove of classified documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, will write a book about National Security Agency surveillance,” reports Julie Bosman. But then, of course, the NSA probably knew about this already.
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Boo-gali
“Bengali children’s fiction’s limitless supply of ghost stories is matched by little other than its readers’ appetite for it,” writes Siddharthya Swapan Roy. “Anthologies dedicated to ghostly thrills come out with unfailing regularity and every publishing house that does not wish to upset its child readership pays due respects to ghosts and their stories.”
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a.) Could you be living next to a chain-saw killer? One little boy’s rear-window peepshow of horror!
b.)She tried
Oops, premature “submit” I have clearly watched too many “Simpsons” episodes. This could be addictive.
b.) She tried to tell them that jazz was in her heart, but all they could say was “Cease the sax, little gal!”
c.) “They told me I could stay forever,” sobs ousted WWII vet. Sad story from Springfield’s own King Lear.
d.) Stateless. Sad stories of the undocumented animated. Where do they come from? Where are they going?
e.) OUTCAST! The horror of a Five-Fingered Freak.
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Realize mine aren’t as relentlessly perky and upbeat as true “Upworthy” candidates, but I just can’t resist the writing style!