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Murder

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On Murder

Jacquelyn Ardam is the author of&nbsp;Avidly Reads Poetry&nbsp;(NYU Press, 2022) and the assistant director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCLA. Her writing on literature, art, and culture has appeared in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum, LitHub, Hyperallergic,&nbsp;Public Books,&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Toast, as well as in academic journals.&nbsp;

Jacquelyn Ardam

The First Restaurant Critic of Color at the L.A. Times

"We all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top." — Hunter S. Thompson

Food & Drink

The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems

ModPo Communities: On “The Difference Is Spreading”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Tainted Objects: A Conversation with Laura Levitt

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered

Stay Out of the Forest: On Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Junk

Canoodling with Junk Food: On Tommy Pico’s “Junk”

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Sharp

Sharp but Narrow

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Poetic Salvage

Demystifying the Contents of the Universe: A New Look at Mina Loy

Education

Tough Enough

Facing Facts, Facing Reality: On Deborah Nelson’s “Tough Enough”

<h4>Jeremy Schmidt is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. His dissertation explores questions of skill and effort in contemporary American poetry, and his writing has appeared in The Believer, the Boston Review, and Lana Turner.</h4>

Jeremy Schmidt

On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive

Sorted Books

Shelf Expression: Nina Katchadourian’s “Sorted Books”

Jacquelyn Ardam is the author of&nbsp;Avidly Reads Poetry&nbsp;(NYU Press, 2022) and the assistant director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCLA. Her writing on literature, art, and culture has appeared in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum, LitHub, Hyperallergic,&nbsp;Public Books,&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Toast, as well as in academic journals.&nbsp;