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Liberation Lit explores engaged fiction and criticism and topical commentary on literature and culture, art and social change, politics and issues of the day.
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What Happened to the Radical Literary Magazine? (opens the original)
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Will Rattler Strikes (opens the original)
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I’ve continued Dear Word in draft, with the revolution outside on Union Square spilling into the bookstore and expanding beyond literary politics. More of the literary conflict floods in too, as the esteemed literary critics the man sought to put on trial are forced to seek refuge from the chaos in the liberated store. I’ll post the continuation down the road, as other work has taken priority for now.In the meantime, I was unexpectedly reminded today of a much briefer satire on roughly the same
Dear Word (opens the original)
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Note: Dear Word, a novella, consolidates, with slight revisions, the previously posted five parts. It’s also an experiment in fiction as literary criticism.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="588.9579667644184"
Dear Word — 5: Agnes Versus Ernest (opens the original)
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Previously: A man takes over Barnes & Noble Union Square determined to kill the American literary canon by nine p.m. — starting with the books themselves. He takes a young aspiring writer hostage. She makes clear she’s nobody’s hostage and he doesn’t know how to make a revolution any better than he knows how to take a hostage. A hidden online streamer who calls themselves an energizer intervenes. Together on the fourth floor, they find literary heaven.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
Dear Word — 4: Literary Heaven (opens the original)
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Previously: A man took over Barnes & Noble Union Square to kill the American literary canon. He demands that the canon die by nine. He took a young aspiring writer hostage and started shooting books. The police called. The girl helped keep them outside, then informed the man that he didn’t know how to take a hostage. The man insists she write his story of revolution. The man has declared himself greater than Cervantes — breaker of the old literature, maker of the new. She steals his pistol and d
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