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  • Mister Green: Internalizing Environmentalism
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    by Amir Hussain

    In the digital sci-fi short Mister Green (2009), a discouraged undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Global Warming, Mason Park (Tim Kang), is biochemically transformed to take in energy directly from the sun just like a plant. The fifteen-minute film is director Greg Pak's insightful visualization of a near future where the environment as we know it has buckled under the strain of global climate change.

     [read]July 19th, 2010

  • Mister Green: Internalizing Environmentalism
    Editor

    by Amir Hussain

    In the digital sci-fi short Mister Green (2009), a discouraged undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Global Warming, Mason Park (Tim Kang), is biochemically transformed to take in energy directly from the sun just like a plant. The fifteen-minute film is director Greg Pak's insightful visualization of a near future where the environment as we know it has buckled under the strain of global climate change.

     [read]July 19th, 2010

  • Issue 7 Reading Period Open
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    Attention writers and readers: We are now accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions for our Issue 7 reading period, July 15 to November 15, 2010. This year we have transitioned to an online-only submission policy: submit your work via Submishmash. This will streamline our reading process and expedite responses to our prospective contributors.

    [read]July 14th, 2010

  • Review: The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer
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    bridge_cover_235.jpg602 pp., Knopf, $26.95

    by Sally Franson
    A lot of fuss has been made about the length of Julie Orringer's debut novel, The Invisible Bridge. Coming in at a whopping 602 pages, this sweeping historical epic, which has earned itself references to Tolstoy and Eliot, isn't exactly the stuff that summer vacations are made of.

    [read]July 13th, 2010

  • Review: Bird Any Damn Kind, by Lucas Farrell
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    90 pp., Caketrain Press, $8

    by Feng Sun Chen
    The first thing I noticed about Lucas Farrell's Bird Any Damn Kind was the cover. It is rarely appropriate to judge a book by its cover, as the saying goes, but this book lives up to its beautiful and surreal front image by Louisa Conrad.

    [read]July 6th, 2010

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Columnists

Landrew Kentmore

Landrew's Take on Technology

  • Is the government getting ready to give us all space stations? // Landrew Kentmore
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    Here's a story: a guy is looking for a place to sit down and hang out. There are a bunch of empty chairs all over the place, but they're not peaceful enough because there are loud people sitting in other chairs nearby.

    [read]July 16th, 2010
David LeGault

New Mythologies

  • Puppies, dislocated // David LeGault
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    Here's a picture of my new puppy. Isn't she cute? Her name is Mackinac, as in Mackinac Bridge or Mackinac Island or Mackinac City, as in Michigan, as in a transitional point between upper and lower peninsulas.

     [read]June 30th, 2010
Liana Liu

Reading People

  • Mean Girls // Liana Liu
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    Up until six months ago, I had never read anything by Muriel Spark. I had heard of her, of course, and thought I knew a couple of things about her. For example, I knew she was from Australia (wrong). And I knew she was a historical romance novelist (wrong, wrong). Where did I get these ideas from? I cannot remember. Probably from guessing. I am an inveterate guesser which might be why I get lost ALL THE TIME. But that is beside the point. Let us talk about Muriel Spark!

    [read]July 23rd, 2010
Gwyn Fallbrooke

The Recluse's Guide to Good Living

  • Psychotherapy: Hot or Not? // Jana Misk
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    Dear readers, as you can see, I've been putting off the promised column about why therapy is awesome. To be honest, as soon as I assured you I would deliver, I was overwhelmed with paralyzing self-doubt. Why should people see therapists? I've been convincing friends and lovers for years that they should seek a therapist's help--and not in that mean way that people sometimes do on sitcoms.

    [read]June 25th, 2010
J. Lee Morsell

The Weekly Apocalypse

  • Space Baby, Is the Future Getting Closer? // J. Lee Morsell
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    (Space Baby hasn't learned to talk.)
    1984: Oceania, Every Thought 'Tis for Thee
    George Orwell's 1949 novel envisioned a distant dystopian future (or a veiled present?) in 1984 (1948?) when the only permissible pleasure is "a boot stamping on a human face," and the government promotes Newspeak, a new version of English devoid of words to express freedom and rebellion.

     [read]July 15th, 2010

Monthly Contest

June Contest Winner: Molly Reid
Entry: "A Question"

"I always hated going to the zoo--didn’t find the lion’s lethargy reassuring--so when you
asked I almost said no. Shit and fur, mud and blood. In front of the snow cone stand, I
stood still. You grabbed my hand." [...]

We're now accepting entries for our July contest.

Submit an entry|Guidelines & prizes

What's Going On

  • Issue 7 Reading Period Open
    Editor

    Attention writers and readers: We are now accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions for our Issue 7 reading period, July 15 to November 15, 2010. This year we have transitioned to an online-only submission policy: submit your work via Submishmash. This will streamline our reading process and expedite responses to our prospective contributors.

    [read]7.14.10

  • dislocate Launch Party: What You Missed
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    Didn't get a chance to attend dislocate's annual shindig, celebrating the new issue release and the launch of the website whose site tracker statistics you are at this very moment improving? We made a slideshow for you so that you would make sure to clear your calendar and book plane tickets to Minneapolis for next year.

    [read]5.16.10


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