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11 Thoughts about the Internet and Mike Meginnis’s “Angband, or His 55 Desires”

11 Thoughts about the Internet and Mike Meginnis’s “Angband, or His 55 Desires”

ByIan Denning

The internet is a compost heap full of old websites and technology and expired pop culture leftovers. Every once in a while, some enterprising artist grabs his or her pitchfork and turns the heap to reach the richest, oldest, most decomposed material. That fertilizes new growth. Vaporwave, a new musical genre, is a good example.

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Oil Dog” by Kelly Dulaney

ByRoss McMeekin

It can be difficult to write short stories about large global issues—take, for instance, our worldwide dependency on fossil fuels—and not have it come off as preachy, in need of novel-length expansion, or as a coy thematic stand-in for our characters’ interior lives. Kelly Dulaney’s short story “Oil Dog” (The Collagist) suffers none of those…