Welcome to the end of the year.
This time last year, I was living in Fort Lauderdale, which was going through the coldest December on record, according to NOAA. This year I’m in Des Moines, going through a much milder winter than usual. The low then is almost equivalent to the high now. This is weird.
Terrific interview here with Kate Eichhorn, who’s archiving zines (among other things) at the New School for Liberal Arts.
Barbara Terry’s life is amazing. She’s 52 and has been a prostitute in New York for over 30 years.
Check out this retelling of Beowulf by Joshua Gray, complete with audio of Joshua reading it. Really cool.
These carved book landscapes are beautiful. Wonder what he could do with a Kindle?
The Atlantic Wire called 2011 the year of the troll. We’ve been lucky in that trolling hasn’t been a huge problem for us, but honestly, that’s in part because we try not to let it start. It’s more because our readers trend towards the awesome.
