Longreads: Elmo Keep: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
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.
You’re Not An Emerging Writer Unless You’ve Published A Book
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 that pay pitiful amounts ‘per page’ and online outlets which pay $50 ‘per post’ regardless of length, or far more frequently which don’t pay anything at all.
This is generating good discussion: some thoughts I had on the Australia Council’s narrow definition of ‘emerging’ writer.
