LUX LITERARY MAGAZINE

The home base for Bard's student run, written, and funded literary magazine, LUX. We'll be posting information about events we'll be hosting, original content, borrowed content, and whatever other detritus we feel is necessary. For more information, look at our about page!

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submit to LUX !

LUX is now accepting submissions of poetry, prose, & visual art. Please send your work to [email protected] by November 9th!

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apply to be an editor of LUX !

If you are a current undergrad at Bard & are interested in applying to be an editor this semester, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xb1dUJQ9F5t5jEi-Lpp4wvqggzwAJxT1r8HZWXfsDcI/viewform?usp=send_form. We will contact you if we're interested in interviewing you. We hope to hold interviews next weekend & make staff decisions before fall break. We're looking forward to getting to know you!

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I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found that story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

Virginia Woolf, The Waves  (via wavingtovirginia)

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SPOTLIGHT: Truisms by Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer is famous for her short statements, formally called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans. 

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Cyanotype, Julia Trybala

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Last drawing of the summer…

www.juliamckenzie.co.uk

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Leopoldo Galluzzo, Discovery of Life on the Moon

In 1835, The New York Sun published a story announcing the sensational discovery of life on the moon. Bat Men and Moon Maidens were described as frolicking among unicorn bison and giraffey beasts. The story increased the newspaper’s popularity dramatically. Believe it – or not ;)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

Jorge Luis Borges, from Blindness

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Shirley MacLaine - ‘Woman Times Seven’ - 1967

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MacLaine reads.

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Moon Beom (b. 1955) Possible Worlds #360

First Open / Online

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Roxy Paine at Marianne Boesky Gallery.

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Matthew Cox is a Philadelphia-based artist who embraces and joins a variety of media to produce several thematic series of work. Medical x-rays and embroidery, couture and crime, rubber stamps, short -story prose and paint all layer toward a darkly comic and anachronistic impression of the human condition in the twenty-first century. He is represented by Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.  

Here artist demonstrates the ultimate in science meets art with his embroidered x-ray pieces.

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The Best American Essays 2014

The Best American Essays 2014 will be released next week. The publisher has also posted a list of the nominations online — we looked through them and picked out ten of the very best:

Joy by Zadie Smith Thanksgiving in Mongolia by Ariel Levy Seeing the Speed of Sound by Rachel Kolb What Lies Beneath by William Langewiesche Forty Thoughts on a Fourth Daughter by Mark Oppenheimer The Old Man at Burning Man by Wells Tower Wildcatting by Susan Elizabeth Shephard The Ghost Writes Back by Amy Boesky The Devil’s Bait By Leslie Jamison Company Man by David Sedaris

Enjoy!

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A fantastic selection of essays for the next time you’re in that nonfiction mood. 

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Keeping track of time, doing this kind of personal accounting, gives things context; it marks the passing of time not unlike the demarcation school enforced, where time was punctuated by semesters and summer breaks. When you mark time in chunks, you can name it — “it’s fall,” “I’m in my 40s,” we’re in the “aughts.” Shared vocabulary has value because then there can be conversation. Being aware of time allows for both an objectivity and a shared experience that weren’t there before. What you actively spend time on, and (far more difficult) what you choose not to do, who you choose not to spend time with, and who and what you decide to say no to — what you choose, then — is how you mark time. And that is all there is.

A beautiful reflection on time by Liz Danzico. Pair with this fascinating look at how humanity has visualized the chunking of time over the ages. 

Annie Dillard captured this yin-yang of time best: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

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Guernica (installation view, SFMOMA), 1937 by Pablo Picasso

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29 September. At one time I used to think: Nothing will destroy you, not this tough, clear empty head.

Franz Kafka, Diaries  (via kafkaesque-world)

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Reading Women (2012 - 2013), Carrie Schneider

Rena reading Zadie Smith, Megha reading Edith Wharton.

Flávia reading Clarice Lispector, Bianca reading Sylvia Plath.

Evan reading Anne Lamott, Aura reading Maarit Verronen.

Sara reading Miranda July, Sheree reading Angela Carter.

Hsiao-Jou reading Fang-Yi Sheu, Heather reading Chris Kraus.

Cauleen reading Gwendolyn Brooks, Molly reading Roseanne Barr.

Sarah reading Zora Neale Hurston, Vicky reading Gloria Fuertes.

Alyssa reading Patti Smith, Yala reading Susan Sontag.

Whitney reading Terry Tempest Williams, Naomi reading Adrian Piper.

Kelly reading Gabrielle Hamilton, Amy reading Michelle Cliff.