All stories published by The Awl on August 01, 2013

All Stories published by The Awl on August 01, 2013

Aug 1, 2013

Responses To “Rape Joke”

by Patricia Lockwood

When you publish a poem like “Rape Joke,” you take it for granted that two things will happen. One: that people will share their own stories with you, which is wonderful; and two: that people will barf all over their keyboards at you…

The Awl

Aug 1, 2013

New Order v. Shakespeare In The Park

by Carmen Johns

“First In Line” goes deep with people who are first…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Aug 1, 2013

What To Google To Get The Government To Show Up At Your House

He travels to Asia for work. She looks up pressure cookers online. And God only knows what the 20-year-old boy in the house Googles. That combination, apparently, is how you get a “joint terrorism task force” to show up at…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 1, 2013

Dudes Finally Getting Wise To Razor Blade Con

Razors and disposable razor blade sales are dropping dramatically. Are American men are shaving less, or could consumers be growing weary of being forced to pay ludicrous amounts of money for what is essentially high-grade tin foil sold at exorbitant…

The Awl

Aug 1, 2013

A Poem By Craig Morgan Teicher

by Mark Bibbins, Editor

Art

As an expression of our inability to live up to the standards of experience, which aren’t even that high, art is transcendent, beating reality at its own game, making reality real, the imagination…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 1, 2013

The Woman Behind Lever House

“Almost invisibly in her own day, Natalie de Blois, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, helped guide the design of three of the most important corporate landmarks of the 1950s and ’60s — the headquarters of Lever Brothers, Pepsi-Cola and Union Carbide — whose suave steel-and-glass…