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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
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Tag Archives: Tin House
Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin vs. Peter Mountford
Take a front row seat for this exciting, no-holds-barred game of style and wit, in which eight topics of the day are parsed, thrust, and parried as you listen to the intellectual steel clang! Continue reading
Posted in Point/Counterpoint
Tagged Al Pacino, battlestar galactica, bradley manning, chelsea manning, Edward Snowden, Game of Thrones, gg allin, hillary mantel, Jim rose circus, King Edward Hotel, Lorrie Moore, low winter sun, PCP, peter mountford, point counterpoint, serpico, sopranos, the dismal science, Tin House, transgressive, tyler mcmahon, veronica mars, Werner Herzog
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Calling Bullshit on a Writer’s Top 10 Excuses for Not Writing
Peter Mountford lays down the hammer. Want to write? You need to read this list. And live by it. No shoes, no shirt, no service. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged Deborah Eisenberg, excuses, Faulkner, Michael Jordan, Nike, Paris Review, peter mountford, Tin House, writing
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Looking at the Numbers Trouble: The VIDA Count and Me
Twenty years before VIDA started collecting statistics that revealed how many more men than women were featured in premier literary publications, Zoe Zolbrod noticed the same kind of disparity. She tried to talk herself out of paying attention, until VIDA’s numbers helped her remember why she should. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics
Tagged Alice Munro, AWP, Beyonce, E.J. Graff, feminism, gender bias, Girls, Granta, Jeannette Winterson, Katha Pollitt, Lorrie Moore, Marixsm, Martha Bayne, Mary Gaitskill, Maxine, Sheryl Sandberg, The Collagist, The Nation, the New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, VIDA
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Well “Red”: 8 Reasons Why Taylor Swift Should Date a Writer
If you want a “Love Story,” Taylor, you must love story. And the writers who craft it. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Popular Culture
Tagged “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, Anne Hathaway, Conor Kennedy, dating, Emma Stone, Harry Styles, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Franco, Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Kardashians, Lauren Cerand, Minka Kelly, Miranda July, Paris Review, Selena Gomez, Tao Lin, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Swift, teen heartthrobs, The Nervous Breakdown, Tin House, writers
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Madness In The Penguin House
Wherein Peter Mountford examines the “gloriously ungainly” new direction of publishing–the forced merger—and makes friends with a legion of authors with a novel suggestion for compensation. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged 50 Shades of Gray, Andrew wylie, Evison, George W. Bush, greywolf press, sasquatch press, Tin House
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