Morning Bites: Lil B at NYU, Edith Wharton, Fires Under Pa., Day Drinking With Rosie Schaap, and More

“I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. I adopted it straight from the ASPCA, you feel me?” –  Lil B’s entire NYU speech is up for your viewing pleasure. Rosie Schaap on the charm of day drinking. Roxana Robinson on Edith Wharton at The Millions. The fires burning under Centralia, Pa. Graham T. Beck visits for The Morning News. Our own Jen Vafidis reviews Amelia Gray’s Threats for The Rumpus. Electric Literature came to our Greatest 3-Minute Punk Stories […]

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Morning Bites: Secret American Towns, Poetry for the Witches, Sam McPheeters, Pulp on TV, and More

The United States operated a secret town in Eastern Tennessee as part of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.  A Continuos Lean has photos of the government’s top secret town. Joseph Pulitzer was born on this day in 1847. The witches of Lancashire get poetry. Sam McPheeters talks to LA Weekly about his new book The Loom of Ruin. Nancy Cohen (Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution is Polarizing America) is the guest on the latest Bat Segundo show. New fiction by Ryan Chang at […]

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