As If the Stars Invented Dinner
So what are Mazer’s actual poems like? They are, in their way, haunted.
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Magic in Movies: Notes on Au Hasard Balthazar
Magic in movies is a beautiful thing. I’ve inundated myself with film for years, since the age of nineteen, but only recently experienced the pleasure of being put under a…
Empathy Towards Flawed Characters: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
-The big news for Doug Dorst this week was that his new book, The Surf Guru, was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. Writer Robin Romm extols Dorst’s…
Morning Coffee
If you’d been hit by six meteors you would probably think aliens were after you too. Well look at you lottery ticket jeep, aren’t you clever? On the very first…
Now Playing: Let It Rain
Agnés Jaoui directed her sublime first film The Taste of Others (Le goût des autres) in 2000, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language film in the process.…
Beaches of Agnès Still on POV for Free
I know this film is a hobbyhorse of mine, but I just can’t resist today: Agnès Varda’s extraordinary filmed memoir, the Beaches of Agnès, is still available to watch for…
Cultivating First Novel Karma
Matt Stewart has written an interesting piece at the Millions about how to cultivate good First Novel Karma:
Rachel Shukert Interview at SMITHMAG
Rachel Shukert is coming out with a new book this week, Everything is Going to Be Great, a memoir of her years in Europe, and SMITHMAG has published a thought-provoking…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #46: Beauty and the Beast
Dear Sugar, I’m an average twenty-six-year-old man, exceptional only in that I’m writing to an Internet advice columnist and that I’m incredibly ugly. I don’t hate myself, and I don’t…
Prop 8 Reactions
As you may have heard, yesterday Judge Vaughn Walker found California’s Prop 8 to be unconstitutional. Here’s the entire ruling if you’re into those sorts of things. I’m not a…
Perfecting Sound
Scott Rosenberg has posted a review of Greg Milner’s Perfecting Sound Forever: an Aural History of Recorded Music:
DIY Publishing & Marketing Seminar In San Francisco
On August 23rd, 826 Valencia in San Francisco is hosting their second Adult Writers’ Seminar from 7-9 pm. This seminar focuses on DIY Publishing and Marketing. The panelists are a…