February 2013
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In the Wake of Finnegan: A Q & A with Xujun...
This week’s Q & A is with the China-born and now Boston-based Xujun Eberlein, a short story writer, blogger, essayist, and contributor to LARB.
I contacted Xujun in part simply because I was curious to learn her reaction to two recent literary-minded and China-focused New York Times pieces. One focused on the surprisingly brisk sales in China of a book by James Joyce, while the other was...
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Nerval’s Lobster (part of the “Self-Help for Surrealists” series) by Mark Dery
Why I Write by Susan Orlean
Reconsidering American Psycho by Samuel Carlisle
G-Rated Moments of Swoon by Stephanie Lucianovic
The Christopher Dorner Complex by Matthew Cunningham-Cook
Don’t Be a Stranger: The Web used to be for strangers by Adrien Chen
Henry Darger’s 1,500-Page Novel
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Second Life: 4 Taxis Magazine by Thomas Lawson
The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz by Wesley Yang
Hidden Costs: The Narrative of Class and Race in Chris Kraus’s Summer of Hate by Jane Hu
Certainty of Hopelessness: How to Discharge Student Debt by Chrisopher Glazek, Sean Monahan
On Beyonce’s Face by Avidly
Eric’s Trip: On Orwell by Houman Barekat
H.R. Geiger to Twentieth...
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The Artist and the Factory
Image © Li Liao
by Alec Ash On October 9th 2012, 30 year old Li Liao reported for his first day’s work at a Foxconn factory in southern China. The colossal electronics contract manufacturer, which makes our iPhones, Kindles and Wiis, provides a livelihood for hundreds of thousands of poor Chinese. It was also the center of controversy after a spate of worker suicides in 2010. Li Liao was...
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