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One very important part of NaNoWriMo is the ability to keep going. In order to do that, you have to stop slowing down to edit things. It goes against every instinct you might have as a writer, but besides fixing minor errors here and there, a main point to NaNo is the ability to keep going.
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For the pious Puritans of early America, witchcraft was a crime of the highest order.
Back then, the term āwitch huntā was not just an expression: In 1692, 19 women and men were hanged and one pressed to death with stones after being found guilty of witchcraft.
In her book The Witches, author Stacy Schiff follows the buildup of fear and outrageous tales of consorting with the devil. The witch trials were set in motion by two young Salem girls in the grip of strange and disturbing symptoms.
āTheir limbs are paralyzed, they contort, theyāre going into trances, and theyāre screaming ā night and day, screeches,ā Schiff tells NPRās Renee Montagne. āAnd one of their first acts after the witchcraft has been diagnosed is to interrupt a minister in meeting. And you can imagine how that went over in a place where women were meant to be submissive and meek and silent.ā
Check out the interview here.
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Some truly scary history. -Emily

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āOne of the things I run into surprisingly often is people saying to me, āIāve never heard of you before,āā says poet Gregory Pardlo. āYet Iāve been publishing in āmainstreamā journals and my book won that prize, so what is it that is making me invisible? Itās not the work and itās not the publishing credits.ā
Music, Music, Music, Books, Books, Books
Reckless - Chrissie Hynde
Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein
Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys - Viv Albertine
M Train - Patti Smith
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink - Napoleon Dynamite
Donāt Suck, Donāt Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt - Kristin Hersh
K.J. Charles on Queer Romance Month
We at QRM believe in everyoneās romance. Gay and lesbian and trans and asexual and bi and genderqueer people deserve their happy ever after every bit as much as anyone else. And there are some amazing, glorious books out there, telling those love stories as adventure, angst, comedy, fantasy, and every other kind of romance, which you could be reading right now.
Read K.J. Charles on her favorite stories from this yearās #QueerRomanceMonth!
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So many cat days, so many authors with cats (more here)
BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS so many books. So many books!
Weāre counting down to a big announcement and giving away a TON of great books to celebrate. Itās all happening on our Twitter, so be sure to follow us for your chance to win.Ā

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Itās almost Halloween, and that means everyoneās looking for Ichabod Crane! With the help, of course, of Irving expert Elizabeth Bradley, who wrote the introduction and notes to our edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories.
In Electric Lit, Jason Diamond went searching for the Headless Horseman at the Old Dutch Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, finding universality in the story:
With the Headless Horseman, weāre not entirely sure what happened, let alone if there ever was a haunting in the first place. Maybe he was just a lone rider mistaken for a phantom in the dark; but in Irvingās storyāone of Americaās truly great stories, passed on through timeāheās whatever we want him to be.
And in The New York Times, Michael Pollak looked at who was the real Ichabod. He went to Elizabeth Bradley, who had some advice on the connection between Ichabod and New Yorkers:
Several 19th-century schoolteachers are held up as the model for the character of Ichabod Crane, including Samuel Youngs andĀ Jesse Merwin. Kinderhook, the Columbia County town where Mr. Merwin taught, has renamed an extant 19th-century, one-room schoolhouse theĀ Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse, the better to capitalize on the Irving association. It shows you how quick New Yorkers are to claim a piece of Irvingās āLegendā for their own community,ā she said. āMuch like George Washington, we all want to say that the Headless Horseman Slept Here.
Regardless of who the historical Ichabod and the Horseman were, if you take to the streets next weekend, you just might find them yourself!
So so so so so so so great! October is the best time to read Washington Irving. How about a littleĀ āRip Van Winkleā on iBiblio?
PW Poetry Reviews October 2015
Itās nearly that time of year when lists start appearing and awards are given out to probably the likely poets who deserve such honors. This is good and sometimes we agree with those things! Itās also nearly the time of year when we all complain about too many lists and awards and garbage. What a time to be alive. Anyway, below is one of the strongest batches of poetry books weāve seen all year, and if you missed our profile of Eileen Myles last month, here it is, freed from the paywall.
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems. Robin Coste Lewis (Knopf)
Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Transtrƶmer. Tomas Transtrƶmer (Sarabande)
Every Day but Tuesday. Barbara Claire Freeman (Omnidawn)
The Falling Down Dance. Chris Martin (Coffee House)
Incorrect Merciful Impulses. Camille Rankine (Copper Canyon)
Second Empire. Richie Hoffman (Alice James)
A Timeshare. Margaret Ross (Omnidawn)
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Joy Harjo (Norton)
Days of Shame & Failure. Jennifer L. Knox (Bloof)
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962ā1972. Alejandra Pizarnik (New Directions)
Landscapes on a Train. Cole Swensen (Nightboat)
Syllabus of Errors. Troy Jollimore (Princeton Univ.)
So many books, so little time. Thank you @pwpoetry for this round-up of new poetry releases. Weāre particularly excited for Robin Coste Lewis, Tomas Transtrƶmer, and Joy Harjo!
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We here in Queens are partial to the title of La Pattiās newest book, M Train. The only train that both starts and ends in our borough!
Find M TrainĀ on Indiebound here, or through your local library on WorldCat.
After a LOT of shuffling and reshuffling of books our Brooklyn store looks completely new! Stop in soon to check it out and browse for a bit.Ā
Congrats to the always-impressive team at @wordbookstores! New store looks great, canāt wait to stop by and ch-ch-ch-check it out.Ā
Some neighborhood names appear to be jokes. Some have stuck around for centuries, despite changing connotations. Some shift with the winds of gentrification. Welcome to Blurred Lines, in which writer...
Super fun Friday afternoon read from Curbed on the geographic and social history of Queens. Bet thereās at least one thing in here you didnāt know!

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Although āThe Case for Reparationsā is, perhaps, Coatesā most influential work of journalism, he found himself dissatisfied with the piece after its publication. This dissatisfaction, in part, led him to write a more personal text in the form of Between the World and Me:
āI felt like a number of historians had done the work of outlining the racism implicit in New Deal policies and twentieth century policies because the weakness with reparation is always people look at you and say, āWell, the slaves are long dead.ā But there are plenty of people around right now who were certainly affected by New Deal policies, so I pulled from the history and made that argument. But when I was done, I was somewhat displeased because I felt like the article did not explain how it felt to live your daily life under a system of plunder, under a system of theft. How does it individually feel to live that way? That was the main challenge for Between the World and Me.ā
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