I Sell Cheap Flowers By The Roadside
I’m still. That’s how it feels.I wait all winter for the animal to die,raise its chin, lookinto time. Ilack sun and Lord Tequila. I wonderwhere good comes. Here in my headI’m a herd of one, and rage,...
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How To Be A Woman
Feelings are facts in the work of Lorrie Moore—author, most recently, of the short story collection Bark, a follow-up to 1998’s adored Birds of America. Though she has published one novel and many...
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No Names, Many Histories
In late December 2010, Gabriella Coleman was experiencing an academic strain of holiday frazzle. Rushing to finish a book on open-source hacker culture, the cultural anthropologist and scholar of...
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A Dead Boy
The boy died on Tuesday. Inexperience, the pastor said. That’s what killed him. The road dipped suddenly and we jumped in our seats. He smoothed the leather bible that rested primly on his knees. Today...
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'That's a Fairly Silly Question': An Interview with Mike Leigh
I’d been warned about Mike Leigh. A difficult fellow, colleagues cautioned—prone to impatience, suffers no fools, not to be approached ill-prepared. As a longtime admirer of the British director’s...
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Impatiently Waiting for the Horror of Death
My dad doesn’t have a lot of time left. I know this because he tells us so. He repeats it monthly, sometimes weekly. He isn’t subtle about it, either—you’d be surprised by how many conversations start...
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My grandmother’s house was always full of flies. They’d crawl across each other on the windowsill or would be spinning out their noisy dyingeverywhere―so many, you could sweep forever and not get all...
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The Bright Side of Individualism
Joachim Roncin, the artistic director of a Parisian weekly called Stylist, was in an editorial meeting when the news of the shootings in Paris broke. Everyone rushed to their computers, where the story...
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The Blank Screen Will Not Save You
Blank screens are so alluringly empty: like fields of fresh, untrodden snow, they sit there in their pristine beauty until, inevitably, you careen along into them and fuck everything up.It doesn’t stop...
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You, Too, Can Be Blessed with an Uneventful Life
In Book Two of My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about (among many many other things) writing Book One of My Struggle. Fair enough: write what you know. I have not worked far enough into Book...
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The Language of the Elite, the Language of the Many
Late last January, while Ukrainian activists occupied government buildings across the country and citizens clashed with police among the tire fires in Kiev, opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk logged...
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Change Your Mind, Change Yourself: An Interview with the Dardennes
Despite the acclaim they have earned (and continue to earn) over the course of their more than 35-year career, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are too often taken for granted. It’s a problem of...
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The Scars To Prove It
“Have you ever suicided yourself?”This is Tom, who didn’t want to use his real name. He’s nine years old. We’re standing outside a corner shop in Kashechewan, a reserve of 1,800 in northern Ontario....
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Killer Lunch: Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tess Gerritsen, and Chris Pavone In...
Sitting down with three mystery writers can be a daunting task. Together, these three have written more than 36 books, and myriad grizzly deaths. Lorenzo Carcaterra has written mystery novels, true...
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Maria Callas is dead and Groucho Marx.Loren Eiseley is dead. Vladimir NabokovAnd Robert Lowell and Elvis. Dead.This is the year in the Years of LeadWhen The Metropolitan Indians riotedIn Bologna after...
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What's the Point of Arguing?
Two friends, David Shields and Caleb Powell, are driving through the mountains. They have set out to have an argument, or rather, many arguments over the course of a long weekend, the transcripts of...
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Frustrate Your Intuitions: On Michael DeForge's First Year Healthy
A nameless woman is released from hospital following an “episode” whose nature and effects remain unspecified. Taking up work at her family’s fish market, she meets a colleague known as the Turk, who...
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‘I’m Okay, Are You Okay?’: An Interview with Bruce McCulloch
Even among the panoply of weirdos that is The Kids in the Hall, Bruce McCulloch is maybe the weirdest. He’s the smallest, certainly, and the angriest. The most physically funny, too (though Kevin...
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The Arcade: Episode 46, Featuring Conrad Black
You can subscribe to the podcast oniTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and viaRSS.This Week…Leaving legacies, 21st century journalism, and a defense of Canada. Hazlitt audio producer Anshuman Iddamsetty...
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