December 2011
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Longreads: Elmo Keep: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 →
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Elmo Keep is a writer who has written for The Hairpin, and other places.
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The Tetris Effect — Justin Wolfe, The Awl
There really isn’t a way to talk about this without spoiling the reveals. Just read it, whether you understand gaming or not, it doesn’t matter: If you don’t,…
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20 Years After Achtung Baby | The Awl
But “With or Without You” is not even subtle in its imagery. It’s up there in its mass misinterpretation with “Born In The USA.” This is not a love song, it’s a song about bondage.
That’s right, U2 write kinky tunes about S&M. TRUTH EXPOSE at the Awl.
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You’re Not An Emerging Writer Unless You’ve... →
Some might argue that it is not the job of the country’s premier arts body to fund journalism — not even the literary, creative non-fiction kind — because it pales next to fiction as a literary art. I would disagree with that, obviously, as I am not a fiction writer. But funding for that kind of journalism hardly comes from within the journalism industry itself, awash with commercial publications...