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Masha Tupitsyn
Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books Like Someone in Love: An Addendum to Love Dog, Love Dog, LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film Beauty Talk & Monsters, the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film. In 2015, she completed the film Love Sounds, a 24-hour audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She teaches film and gender studies at The New School. Her new film, Time Tells, is forthcoming in 2017.

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The Rights Of Nerves

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September 2016

Masha Tupitsyn

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September 2016

‘I transform “Work” in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real “Work” — of writing.’ — Roland Barthes, Mourning...

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December 2013

When We Were Here: The 1990s in Film

Masha Tupitsyn

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December 2013

‘I remember touch. Pictures came with touch.’ -Daft Punk, ‘Touch’   In the 1990s, three important pre post-reality films...

 Dustsceawung (Old English): contemplation of the fact that dust used to be other things – the walls of a city, the chief of the guards, a book, a great tree: dust is always the ultimate destination Such contemplation may loosen the grip of our worldly desires – ‘Untranslatable Words’, The School of Life, 2018   *   my living is thick and filthy   I start the day by reading obituaries like I’m smoking a morning cigarette, ash in my one eye, the other tucked under my pillow   this is the crap I breathe to dust absurdity over everything   I saw this coming in my periphery I’m short-sighted, so never wear my glasses   I’m a painter brushing a wash for the background, everything atomised beyond a point   *   making coffee, drinking water at the sink, an evening with dear friends: the warm up frames in the comic strip, the montage of my trivial activities before the incident   the creak on the stairs in the new house is a home invasion   the click of the boiler, like someone striking a match, foreshadows a gas explosion   well someone is going to stop breathing   *   the german word for hoover is staubsauger, lit dust sucker and you may call a baby säugling – little suckler we call them tot, resembling das deutsche wort for ‘dead’ staubschauen, like the old english word for the contemplation of dust, might be translated as ‘dust-gazing’   sounds irritating on the eyes   *   brambles tumbled over the back wall overnight I pick the berries bunches of black balloons leaving the infants and the mouldy ones grey and puffy like a bulldog’s face   I make a crumble and give it to a neighbour I think this is living but my mind sees through it   there are hundreds of berries along the main road   I wouldn’t touch them   juicy with fumes and roar and residue from discarded drinks bottles each black bubble filled with cola and stout   *   squatting on low stools in a pub full of lungs we proclaimed we’d started

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August 2014

Masha Tupitsyn

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August 2014

Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books Like Someone in Love:...

Love Dog

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July 2013

Masha Tupitsyn

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July 2013

11 22 2011 – LOVE DOG     For months Hamlet has been floating around. Its book covers popping up everywhere. Non sequitur references...
Famous Tombs: Love in the 90s

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February 2013

Masha Tupitsyn

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February 2013

‘However, somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate—’ Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll   I. BEGINNING   I was a pre-teen when...

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Prize Entry

April 2016

clerical error

Victoria Manifold

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April 2016

Due to a clerical error on my part, the current Prime Minister is now living in the box room...

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Issue No. 20

The Refugee

Kristen Gleason

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Issue No. 20

Brian Ed waited outside the ration house. Merlijn took his time coming to the door, and opened it slowly....

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April 2017

The Lovers

Devyn Defoe

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April 2017

Everyone who asks questions, asks in some way about love. The question is one half, the answer the other....

 

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