Claudia Rankine’s Citizen should win the National Book Award.
Megan Burbank
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Reading Stone Butch Blues with a Highlighter: The Legacy of Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg LESLIE FEINBERG Feinberg, in a self-portrait here, wrote revolutionary words. Monday morning, my Facebook feed exploded with tributes to author Leslie Feinberg. Maybe yours did too. Feinberg, who died over the weekend from complications due to multiple tick-borne illnesses (one of them Lyme disease), was a trans activist and a prolific author, whose […]
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Today in Internet News: Mallory Ortberg Subsidiary The Butter Goes Live!
Henry Holt I HAVE A REVIEW COPY OF THIS BOOK and I am obsessed with it. The Butter, the new sister site to Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe’s The Toast, launched today, and it’s already full of Roxane Gay-curated excellence. (If you don’t know who Mallory Ortberg is, just follow her on Twitter right now, […]
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This Week in Art: Bizarro Fiction, Science for Women, & the Allure of Mid-Brow Entertainment
Artwork by Eatcho In which we talk about art that stands out. The arts section was jam-packed this week, as we continued our weeks-long stretch of covering vaguely creepy things that live in the great, generative space between high and low culture (previously: David Cronenberg’s cannabilism-meets-philosophy debut novel, Consumed; William Gibson‘s latest; and severed heads […]
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Amazon-Hachette Dispute Looks Like It’s Finally Settled, But You Still Shouldn’t Buy Books from Amazon
Crisis averted, book-nerds! Amazon and Hachette have come to an agreement, which means that (hopefully), emerging authors will not have their young careers ruined because their books weren’t available for pre-order on Amazon. Paul Constant at the Stranger weighs in on this shadowy readin’ detente: But there’s one interesting nugget buried in all that blah-blah-blah […]
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Tig Notaro’s Show at the Aladdin Has a New Date
Following yesterday’s cancelation of Tig Notaro’s scheduled tour stop in Portland, the Aladdin Theater has announced a new rescheduled date for an appearance from (a hopefully recovered) Tig Notaro: We can all plan to laugh uproariously on January 14. If you’re feeling really stressed for her, or just need your Tig fix, I recommend this […]
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If Dollhouses Were Honest: Tiny Domestic Spaces at Open Gallery
Megan Burbank Malcolm Kentner’s “31 Spofford” Open Gallery, at 323 NW 6th, is a small exhibition space that fronts studios. From the outside, you might not even know it’s a gallery. But once inside its sticky door, you’ll see evidence of the contrary. The artists who work in the gallery space take turns curating, and […]
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Westward Bro
Destruction Is the Real Subject of Profile Theatre’s True West
Destruction is the real subject of Profile Theatre’s True West.
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A Season in Hell, or Not
The Extreme High and Lows of Tig Notaro’s Comedy Tour
Charting the extreme highs and lows of Tig Notaro’s comedy tour.
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Tonight’s Tig Notaro Show at the Aladdin Has Been Postponed
Ruthie Wyatt The Aladdin Theater, where Tig Notaro was scheduled to perform tonight, has announced via their website that her show has been postponed. Here’s their announcement: Tig is recovering from a recent hospitalization and has to postpone tonight’s show. She will be ok. Please stay tuned for the rescheduled date, which we’ll know by […]
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Tig Notaro’s Medical Saga Continues, But No Show Cancellations Announced for Portland
If you’ve been following what’s going on with Tig Notaro, you know the comedian has had a crazy couple of days. It started with her New York show on Thursday, where she performed for 30 minutes without a shirt on, thus exposing her double mastectomy scars and blowing up the Internet. Then she was hospitalized […]
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Remembering Cookie Mueller, and Her Friendship with Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Cookie Mueller’s death. Even if you don’t know anything about her, you’ve probably seen her severe, winged-out eyeliner or watched her in a John Waters movie—she was in four of them, including Pink Flamingos. She was also a writer (for Details, the East Village Eye, and BOMB) […]