The literary spin cycle

From Reuters: 'Doing the laundry has taken on a new meaning for New Yorkers who can now watch their wash and spin cycles while listening to poetry and prose.'

According to the report, New Yorkers traditionally bury their head in a book or head to the nearest coffee shop to beat the boredom of waiting for their laundry to get done. Writer Emily Rubin has the solution. It is called Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose, and it is coming to the nearest laundromat near you if you live in New York.

"Just mixing laundry and writing seemed completely natural to me because truly in life and metaphorically as a writer, everyone has dirty laundry," she says in the report.

'So New Yorkers can wash their dirty laundry while listening to a poem or short story. During the first of the 2007 series writer Carolyn Turgeon read some of her work while people loaded the dryers and washing machines.'

Some of the people attending the reading felt a bit odd initially but got used to the idea. "It was a little strange, it was kind of wild," one person is quoted.

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