“A Hired Gun”
“In the past year, I’ve written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won’t find my name on a single paper.” Meet “Ed Dante,”…
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2010
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Notable New York, This Week 11/16 – 11/21
The week in New York Jonathan Ames has a Ball, Salman Rushdie reads, Paul Auster stays true to NYC, Ann Beattie compiles stories form The New Yorker, Patti Smith hosts…
Tales of Woe
Tales of Woe descends from one circle of hell to the next, an act of sabotage against the Hollywood narrative of sin, suffering, and redemption.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is a good day. Science has been explaining a lot of things lately; this is why you love cheese. (via BoingBoing.) This just in: baby black holes are great…
Portrait of the Music Blogger as a Young Man: The Rumpus Interview with Aaron Wolfe
How a Brooklyn musician uses Tumblr to cover a song a night (roughly) and write accompanying life stories.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/15-11/21
This week in San Francisco: readings, readings, readings! Porchlight, Tenderloin #7, and Naked Minds will keep your craving for words at bay, Nato Green hosts Iron Comic at the Punchline,…
Bartolozzi Bonanza
Illustrations by Salvador Bartolozzi for Tintinel et Galafon, a French version of his Pinocho Contra Chapete (1920s):
Bad Son, Bad Poetry
Remember when Steve Almond interviewed his mom about her new book, The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood? (That’s right, Steve’s mom wrote a book about a mother’s fear…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #61
LOOKING GOOD ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing looking good.
Wired and Women
Wired featured a pair of breasts on the cover of its November issue to promote an article on tissue engineering. In an open letter to the magazine, Cindy Royal argues that…
Magazine Review #2: Zoetrope: All-Story (Fall 2010)
One of the most remarkable things about Zoetrope: All-Story has always been their use of guest designers. Every issue carries the unique stamp of the contributing artist but this issue…