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Owl Reads: 01.15
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Why Owl is Not a Writer. Whenever Owl admits that she writes in her spare time, people inevitably ask her what. She writes. This is Owl’s cue to scuttle away like a cockroach. In the event that Owl is unable to scuttle, she shuffles her feet and mutters something about personal essays and memoirs. Non-fiction, the listener will say. Creative non-fiction, Owl will amend. Owl is not a proper f...
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Owl Reads: True Confessions of a Slush Reader
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Sunday, January 23, 2011. True Confessions of a Slush Reader. Whenever I feel like a good dose of self-torture I submit a story to a magazine and get a blistering rejection. A few months ago, I hit upon a better strategy. Why not join the dark side and become one of the rejecters instead? In other words, a slush reader, one of the drudges who shifts through a magazine’s submission pile. I slush read for a magazine that ...
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Owl Reads: 11.14
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Monday, November 24, 2014. Owl Attends the National Book Awards. That is, until Shep invited her to the National Book Awards. Woman: You are going to a wedding? Owl: An award ceremony. Owl: The National Book Awards! The National Book Awards! The woman told Owl to get a navy dress before Owl could burst into song. Owl paid up and wrote the cost off as the price of worshiping at the altar of books. If you’re...Owl’s...
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Owl Reads: The World Explained by a Couple of Squished Oranges
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Sunday, February 6, 2011. The World Explained by a Couple of Squished Oranges. Owl’s family is full of doctors, engineers and business people. Owl spends family reunions pretending she has grand plans for a financially solvent future. The only exception is Owl’s aunt who went off and got a master’s degree in Hindi literature. The last time Owl saw her aunt, Owl had a grand epiphany. Compadre! 1000 A.D.] Gods and...1990s...
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Owl Reads: 01.12
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Wednesday, January 25, 2012. The Shores of Malaysia. People are easing into Malaysia, some sinking comfortably into its softness, others landing awkwardly and bruising. It is not easy. Malaysia is different, roughly 70% Malay, 20% Chinese, 10% Indian; three cultures folded into one, and so mixed that their edges blur and it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. And this is where Owl struggles. Occasionally to ...
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Owl Reads: The Oppression of Owl via Nude Band-Aids
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Monday, January 12, 2015. The Oppression of Owl via Nude Band-Aids. In the spirit of the New Year, Owl sat down to write something deep and meaningful. Owl looked at the blank page and pulled out Americanah. The problem was Owl wasn’t actually sure what the truth was. But she digresses. The take home point of these discussions was racists were people who existed in the past, and racism is something that white people...
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Owl Reads: Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Thursday, March 3, 2011. Go Tell It on the Mountain. In the spirit of penance, Owl just finished James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain. Owl is inordinately fond of Baldwin’s Another Country. Which is a sprawling pulsing joy of a book studded with glittering passages on art, love, identity, race, and sexuality. Charisma radiates off of the pages. Radiates! Owl imagined Go Tell It on the Mountain. Since then, Owl has...
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Owl Reads: FAQs
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. You have enough readers to put together an FAQ? No But Owl thought it might be an easier way to explain some things. Also she likes to pretend she's multiple people. Why an owl and why third person, er, bird? Mid-twenties Owl still has problems speaking up in person. But Owl still has things to say. And she wants to say them. This is how she does it. Where are you from? What do you do with your time? In the spirit of pe...
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Owl Reads: 12.11
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Memoria de mis labores tristes. Owl nearly spontaneously combusted from jealousy. The flight attendant spent a lot of time smiling at the man and slipping him extra peanuts. Owl was convinced it was because he was a polyglot and not because he was tall and distinguished looking. Girl who went to a Spanish immersion elementary school. Girl fluent in Italian. Girl fluent in French. Owl's drea...
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Owl Reads: 10.13
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 8212;Sir Arthur Helps. Friday, October 11, 2013. Saving Time: Momo by Michael Ende. Owl is at journalism school. There are days when Owl rolls out of bed at 8:00, appears at class from 9:00 until noon conducts an interview during lunch hour, sits through lecture until 6:00 pm, conducts another interview, types everything up and submits before midnight. She eats breakfast on the elevator, lunch on the train, and dinner at her desk. Can one eve...
