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The Difference between the Lightning Bug and the Lightning

by Natalie Bakopoulos

…n is going away.” Many have pointed out that some teachers might feel more comfortable not having the word come up in the classroom; the issues of the book still remain without that offensive utterance. After all, Williams notes: [Twain] didn’t shy away from Huck’s flaws and his small-mindedness. He didn’t shy away either from his bravery and love. He didn’t make it easy for readers to unconditionally embrace that scamp; he didn’t want to. That wa…


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Forgetting English, by Midge Raymond

by Erika Dreifus

…Tongan and Chinese (just for starters)? Midge Raymond / photo from http://www.midgeraymond.com The stories are not “linked” in the conventional sense—characters do not reappear from story to story, although the protagonists do tend to be Americans, and female, and they’re not exactly the happiest individuals you might meet. One of them teaches English in Taiwan. Another is visiting her sister, who has extended a Peace Corps stint to permanent res…


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Buy a book, adopt a… penguin

by Celeste Ng

…hasn’t heard about the promotion let them know about it by sending them to www.penguinlost.com. If they are already participating then, well then buy a book and help save a penguin. It works the other way around, too. Penguin Lost, the blog for the series, adds: Since the beginning of Adopt-a-Penguin, anyone who adopts a penguin on their own from the World Wildlife Federation, or one of the three other groups we’re using while the contest is runni…


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The Rebel from Helena: An Interview with Maile Meloy

by Joshua Bodwell

…le Meloy, which was originally published on December 25th of 2009. Meloy’s new novel, Do Not Become Alarmed, was published by Riverhead last week. In 1993, the late David Foster Wallace published “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. The essay, later collected in Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, ponders television’s influence on American fiction and postulates a somewhat surprisi…


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Five Questions for Slice Magazine

by The Editors

…rsts. In addition to larger distribution and e-formats, we re-launched our website with a new design, and three new weekly columns to support our writers in each issue: “In The Telling,” a podcast that features Slice contributors reading their work; “Encounters in Publishing,” which draws the curtain on the publishing industry with articles from people in the business; and “A Quick Slice,” brief interviews with Slice authors. And one of our bigges…


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Exit on Interview Street: A Conversation with Adam Rapp

by Brian Bartels

…recently burned through multiple sixteen-hour writing binges to submit his latest YA novel. Just another average day for Adam Rapp. Interview: Brian Bartels: Know Your Beholder is set in Pollard, Illinois. A fictional place, but familiar in its Midwestern texture. Can you talk about how the Midwest has been a steadfast tableau in your stories and settings? Adam Rapp: I spent my entire youth there.The long winters, tornadoes, mosquitoes, haunting t…


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Gyre Journeys: How Twains of Theme and Plot Meet in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being (Part I)

by Candace Walsh

…hen Nao walks into her apartment and finds her father passed out after his latest attempt to commit suicide. “The apartment smelled like stinky ginkgo trees. . . . It smelled like garbage and throw-up.” Her father is the source of these smells; he threw up after overdosing on pills. While doing research to confirm that ginkgo trees do in fact sometimes smell bad (female trees do),[2] I also learned that ginkgo trees can spontaneously change sex, a…


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A State of Allegiance and Trust: An Interview with Lamar Herrin

by Paul Cody

…ent of his own conception. Well, he’s got to be sure, doesn’t he? He has become the narrator, and there are—there might be—competing claims to his fathering. And for the son to follow the father through the Battle of the Bulge so that he’ll know what did and didn’t happen on that snowy cow pasture in the Belgian Ardennes. What’s the price of all these narrative and psychological liberties? I’ve always felt, and I’d bet the house that you have too,…


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Living as Lion and Hunter: An Interview with Donald Quist

by Benjamin Woodard

…es a common tendency to sanctify our dead. It might be viewed as an act of compassion. But I’d argue that compassion and social obligation often get confused. Frequently, we don’t seem to know how to navigate the death of a family member, or any huge loss, and that line between compassion and obligation blurs. Compassion does not mean ignoring all that makes a person problematic. We alter history in what we believe to be an act of love. But to lov…


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Oft-Given Gifts, Part 1

by Rebecca Scherm

…ed on his book of the same name. My recommendations are for The Psychopath Test and his new essay collection, Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, which collects his work on the frivolous (children with indigo auras, reenactments of James Bond’s road-trips) and the damned (ruthless fake psychics, credit card companies). If I had to give the same book to everyone on my list, this would probably be it. I got it for my dad, who gave me The Psychopa…




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