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Re-downloaded IG to my phone to share an exciting news! @electricliterature has kindly published this lil’ zine I made awhile back — “The Last Woman on Earth.” So now more than 24 people can read it! 😁

Need fashion inspiration for our upcoming Masquerade of the Red Death? May we suggest... (Psst--tickets are only $35 until Oct. 1, snag your early bird passes here: https://t.co/p7yNNRnGJO) pic.twitter.com/lmy9BUyTlB

John Freeman on publishing the one and only Lydia Davis: "So many writers I admire came into my life when I was looking desperately for a way to live. Lydia Davis is one of them." https://t.co/vCzmkfteIw

"What’s your reasoning and responsibility when choosing to write outside of your own experience?" http://bit.ly/2yXFadT

"Not many writers can pull off this sense of controlled chaos like Cottrell does." @erynn_porter on @pmcottrellhttp://bit.ly/2qFAhlm http://pic.twitter.com/6HwSWuF2DP

We’re back! Sort of. This week, we’re reconsidering some common narratives. Why do men always want us to read Infinite Jest? Why does Melania want to stay in New York? And most importantly, why was everyone so wrong about Girls?

“Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me” by Deirdre Coyle, April 17 2017, Electric Literature

I love DFW’s essays as much as the next girl (”Up, Simba” is one of my favorite pieces of political writing maybe ever), but the writer is very right about the way men treat Infinite Jest as the sine qua non of literary accomplishments.

AND THE RUNNERS-UP:

“Fairytale Prisoner by Choice: The Photographic Eye of Melania Trump” by Kate Imbach, April 16 2017, Medium

Life through Melania’s eye by analyzing her photography: everything viewed from behind glass or from inside a vehicle or from high above everyone else. New York is her tower and this princess is never leaving.

“On Finally Watching ‘Girls,’ a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine” by Jia Tolentino, April 13 2017, The New Yorker

I have been thinking about the final season all week and have come to the conclusion that it was basically perfect. Fight me.

“The American Experiment” by Sarah Nicole Prickett, April/May 2017, Bookforum