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On the Fashion Fence: Dear Creatures
On the Fashion Fence: Dear Creatures
By Sarah Bennett
June 21, 2013

Dear Creatures' designs are either totally charming or too cutesy-pootsey, I can't decide.

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Nobody Gets Famous in Chicago
Nobody Gets Famous in Chicago
By Julia Langbein
June 20, 2013

How the Back Room Shakespeare Project Gave Up on Theatre — and Revived It

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Speaking with Distinction or Talking Like a Snob?
Speaking with Distinction or Talking Like a Snob?
By Julia Langbein
June 20, 2013

The weird, true story behind Good Speech, also known as "the-a-tah voice."

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Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Jami Attenberg and Francesca Segal
Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Jami Attenberg and Francesca Segal
By Freddie Moore
June 20, 2013

A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Jami Attenberg and Francesca Segal discuss how to write about home when you're so far away.

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Cut the Craft: Making Sense of Making Stuff
Cut the Craft: Making Sense of Making Stuff
By Sarah Bennett
June 20, 2013

Just because crafting's no longer hip doesn't mean it's not worth doing, especially now that it's not cold.

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Portraiture for the Masses: A Review of 'The Unwinding' by George Packer
Portraiture for the Masses: A Review of 'The Unwinding' by George Packer
By Julia Langbein
June 20, 2013

With a handful of main characters whose stories we follow for 35 years, Packer attempts to repopulate narratives at the epicenters of the housing collapse and deindustrialization.

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Unwinding 'The Unwinding': An Interview with George Packer
Unwinding 'The Unwinding': An Interview with George Packer
By Julia Langbein
June 20, 2013

We discuss the navigation of a novelistic tone in a work of journalism and whether Jay-Z would be cool with The Unwinding.

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Good Speech
Good Speech
By Julia Langbein
June 19, 2013

The Weird, True Story Behind Good Speech, also Known as "The-a-tah Voice"

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Netflix Finds: Square Grouper
Netflix Finds: Square Grouper
By Sarah Bennett
June 19, 2013

The wild, weed-filled world of '70s Florida is on display in Square Grouper.

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Say Hello to Our New Editor!
Say Hello to Our New Editor!
By Barbara C. Bourland
June 18, 2013

Arvind Dilawar is the former editor of Street Carnage, and his writing has appeared in Gawker, Platform, Leisure, Thought Catalog, theatlantic.com, and Gothamist, among others.

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