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"She ashes her cigarette, burned down just short of the filter, into the dirt next to her feet."

http://dmouth.com/writing/new-year-or-something

New Year, or Something She says tomorrow I quit smoking and she leans sideways against a white pillar, pressing her weight against it and playing with the loose splinters at the porch’s edge. I say Anne, you said that yesterday.

Christian Nakazawa on the myth and historicism of the lone genius.

Graven Images

Worried that the push for gun control will come up empty? Alex Kane and Mac Simonson spitballed some alternative approaches to help deal with daily mass shootings.

http://dmouth.com/writing/2015/12/4/ways-to-deal-with-daily-mass-s

Ways to Deal with Daily Mass Shootings 1) Put it in perspective. Mass shootings may occur on average once a day. But the Spanish Influenza killed 50,000,000 people. 2) A mindfulness coloring book. Your childhood is over and your innocence gone, but infantilizing yourself can be as easy as purchasing an adult coloring book. 3) Swap out co…

Alex Kane and Mac Simonson on "The End of the Tour," the new film following David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) on the last stop of the book tour for "Infinite Jest."

Every Story Is a Ghost Story "[I had the] relief of knowing that I wasn’t the only one, you know? Who felt this way. Who had, you know, worried that perhaps the reverse of paranoia was true: that nothing was connected to anything else."