Revisiting the '90s with 'Dry County' writer-artist Rich Tommaso

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Revisiting the '90s with 'Dry County' writer-artist Rich Tommaso

Rich Tommaso: I was self publishing mini comics right after quitting art school in 1989–and from then until about 1993, I was sending these things out to everyone I could think of: Dark Horse Comics, Fantagraphics Books, New England Comics, Vertigo, Tundra, First, NOW, etc, etc… so after four or five
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GQ Buys Into Commerce Content

The lesson learned: It doesn't necessarily work when a publisher creates the content and sells the stuff. Just ask Thrillist, which acquired men's flash sale site JackThread in 2010 only to spin it off into a separate company less than five years later. But it can work – lucratively – when publishers stick to
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NBCUniversal adds Refinery29 to its growing list of digital publisher and platform partners

NBC Sports and Refinery29 are embarking on a yearlong social editorial and marketing partnership focused on telling stories about female athletes and other women in sports. It's the latest instance of NBCUniversal working with a platform or digital publisher to create digital content. The partnership
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Writing is like Schrödinger's Cat

There's a cat in a box. It is both alive and dead until somebody opens the box and looks inside. It's the same with a piece of writing. Until you show it to someone, it is both amazing and terrible. It is both a potential best-seller and worthy of the rubbish bin. While we can talk about the ideas with others,
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Dissecting Whiteness in the American Poetic Canon with Claudia Rankine

Further, Rankine discussed how the people in these authors' works are presumed to be white simply because they are people. She added, “Whiteness as universal, nonpartisan, neutral, and normal is an equation that rules journalism, non-fiction, and creative writing, which is to say it rules the culture.
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Discovering the Power Behind Words

Words come to life every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. when Snow College's Creative Writing Club gathers in room 131 of the Humanities Building. The club is home to a variety of writers, including poets, novelists, and screenwriters. Each writer comes to the club with their own set of skills and experiences.
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Student Spotlight: Hannah Matheson '18 talks poetry as art

“I came in knowing that I would probably be an English major because I've always loved reading and writing,” she said. This year, Matheson will be graduating as an English major concentrating in creative writing. She is an editor and writer for literary publications Mouth and The Stonefence Review, and
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Professor's Bookshelf: Amy Bloom '75

Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing Amy Bloom, who is a New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award nominee, has written a new novel entitled “White Houses.” The book, which came out on Feb. 13, charts a love story between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the
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Forging New Centers: Marginal Voices in Contemporary Poetry

Visiting Professors of Creative Writing in English Matthew Burnside and Danielle Vogel agree. “If art is about stepping into other pairs of shoes and gleaning the experience of the other, when those other pairs of shoes aren't represented, the complete spectrum of the human experience isn't fully
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