“Liu Xiaobo committed no crime.”
“On Christmas Day last year, Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his part in creating Charter 08, a document calling for greater freedoms and…
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June 2010
374 posts
We’ll Make Great Pets
In Don LePan’s dystopian novel, the animals are all extinct and the weaker people have taken their place in the food chain.
“I’m gonna meet you on the astral plane”
The UFO-inspired works of Uruguayan artist Alexandro Garcia (born 1970), courtesy of Galerie Christian Berst:
Writing About Writers
“Increasingly, writing about writers/writing feels too self-referential, too meta, too much. There are so many occupations we could explore through our writing—fireman, astronaut, waitress, cowboy, ballet dancer, whatever—that have a…
One Day Only Special
Online lit mag Word Riot has just announced an interesting stunt. Between now and next Monday, writers who have been published in Word Riot, 3:AM Magazine, Anderbo, Collagist, decomP, Dogplotz,…
Morning Coffee
The best we can do with the materials at hand. We here are about 80 percent sure the world is ending, but we just can’t stop looking at this sink…
RE: Online Course Evaluations
“What great dialogues we’ve had on e-mail, cell phone, text messages, Facebook, and Twitter—uv taut me tns!! ☺”
The Lesson Is Never Try
“Recently it struck me that the list of books I’ve started and not finished has grown quite formidable. I ask myself what this ‘means,’ if it reflects some kind of…
“Manual for a Productive Everyday Life”
Ever think that your day-to-day hum drum simply isn’t productive enough? Do you feel bogged down by a sense of overall disappointment or lethargy? Well we’ve got answers for you!…
DHS Does Not Approve
“I had wanted to make an interpretation of me giving all of myself to my work… I wanted to convey that the cans were exploding with color, and that’s how…
The (Money) Passage
“I think literary is shorthand for appreciated, and commercial is shorthand for sells.” Justin Cronin‘s latest book, The Passage, is “vastly different from his previous work, which reflects his literary…
Daniel Gumbiner: The Last Book I Loved, The Savage Detectives
When does writing about ourselves become narcissistic? Are we ever not writing (or reading) ourselves? Some Thoughts After the Mezcal Ran Out: