"The idea of drinking gasoline excited me. Excited everyone. It was simple...
“The idea of drinking gasoline excited me. Excited everyone. It was simple math. A gallon of gasoline has 31,500 calories in it; a gallon of 2% milk has only 2000.” - from ‘What to Eat’, a story by...
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'Next To Nothing', by Brendan Maclean
Photograph courtesy Brendan Maclean Shivering, peering through his long tanned legs to the shoreline, I stood in the chilled shallow water. The whitewash hit my back and I was knocked forward. Taking...
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'Alt (C)lit: What Remains Of A Literary Subculture', by Emmie Rae
On September 27, Medium published ‘We Don’t Have to Do Anything’, a testimony by Sophia Katz. Katz, a twenty-year-old Canadian writer, travels to Brooklyn, the physical centre of the Alternative...
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A Mixtape by Total Control
Total Control – A Mix for The Lifted Brow by The Lifted Brow on MixcloudA Mix for Group Email Communication and other Technological Devolutions by Daniel, Al and Zephyr for The Lifted Brow:...
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Featured Contributor: Blake Butler browcontribs: Blake Butler...
Featured Contributor: Blake Butlerbrowcontribs:Blake Butler is an American writer and editor. He edited the literature blog HTMLGiant and two journals: Lamination Colony, and concurrently with...
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‘Telling Ourselves Stories’, by Madelaine Lucas
Photograph by the author.In the introduction to her new book of essays, Not That Kind Of Girl, Lena Dunham writes:There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing their story is one that...
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The Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers: A Tasting Plate
Yesterday, the shortlist for the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers was announced. The Lifted Brow is proud to have published five of the seven writers appearing on that list, so we’ve...
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Please Welcome Our New Print Edition Editors!
As we mentioned a couple of months ago, TLB is undergoing all kinds of tweaks to its operations, as well as entering into brand new publishing and artistic territories. (A handful of us are actually...
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‘Masturbating Chimpanzees, Boiling Blood and Spacesuits: The Human Body in...
Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.June 30, 1971. Their bodies are twisted and sore from a squashed eighteen-hour flight into orbit. The three cosmonauts of Soyuz 11, a Soviet manned mission,...
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Out Now! The Lifted Brow: Digital — Volume Fourteen, Issue Two: The Worried...
Cover art by Jr.Blue/LashnaTuschewski.There’s a strange new item now on the menu: a brand new issue of The Lifted Brow: Digital is here, and ready for your conspicuous consumption.Poke your...
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'Outside the Boxes: On the Ethics of Outsider Art', by Eloise Grills
Photograph by londoninflames. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licence. I discovered Vivian Maier on Tumblr, of all places. It seemed ironic: the...
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A Mixtape by David Shrigley
David Shrigley – A Mix for The Lifted Brow by The Lifted Brow on Mixcloud'Mostly Guitar-based Rock with Melodic Aspects', a mixtape by David Shrigley forThe Lifted Brow: Digital. This interview was...
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Featured Contributor: Heidi Julavits browcontribs: Heidi...
Featured Contributor: Heidi Julavitsbrowcontribs:Heidi Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. Her novels include The Mineral Palace, The Effect of Living Backwards, The...
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Tone Nos Wat Hes Doen Want more Tone? Click here, or...
Tone Nos Wat Hes Doen Want more Tone? Click here, or here.Follow The Lifted Brow on Tumblr or Twitter or like us on Facebook to be the first to know about Tone’s next comic.
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'AN UPDATED APPROXIMATELY ACCURATE GENDER BREAKDOWN OF BROW CONTRIBUTORS: A...
A while back, we started recording the breakdown of our contributors’ genders for each print issue we published. And then we published this post in September 2013 about it. We’re interested in this, so...
View Article"He was no longer allowed to drive. He bought a new car anyway, a slick white...
“He was no longer allowed to drive. He bought a new car anyway, a slick white sedan. We sat in it in the driveway, opening and closing the electronic windows. He said, “I don’t have long to live, but...
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'After The Orgy, The (New) Normal Heart', by Dion Kagan
Illustration by Ben Juers.“After all our history, after all these deaths, we still don’t… have a gay culture… We have our sexuality and we have made a culture out of our sexuality, and that culture has...
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Featured Contributor: Neil Gaiman browcontribs: Neil Richard...
Featured Contributor: Neil Gaimanbrowcontribs:Neil Richard Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the...
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'Ascension Magazine: A Review', by Leesa Watego and Samara Gentle
Images courtesy Ascension. Photograph: David Broadway. Model: Marlikka Perdrisat @ The Dreamtime Project.Ascension is Australia’s first lifestyle magazine for Indigenous and ethnic women. The...
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'Everywhere and Nowhere in Particular: Alt Lit in Australia', by Connor Tomas...
Photograph by Isriya Paireepairit. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Licence.Even if he was (maybe, probably) tripping on ‘shroom tea the entire time, the...
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