2011
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Postponing/Anticipation
Due to second thoughts about preserving the anonymity of one of Sugar’s advice seekers, Dear Sugar will run a little later than expected. (As Sugar put it on twitter: “Oy. Last minute switch up: the person who wrote the letter…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Nice” by Marianne Boruch
I love a poem that understands me. Most of the time, when I’m not reading poetry to inspire my own work, I read it as a reminder to appreciate the world, or some small space within it. Some days, I…
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On Advice and Sugar’s Anonymity
As linked to earlier today, Sugar, our favorite weekly advice columnist, got written up in The New Republic. Ruth Franklin recognizes the dedicated band of followers that depend on their weekly Sugar fix, and calls her “the ultimate advice columnist…
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Rumpus Folks Get Some Love
You should check out We Who Are About To Die’s interview with Rumpus Music Editor Katy Henriksen where she talks about trying to balance writing and parenthood. And Ruth Franklin at The New Republic wrote a really nice piece on…
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Save the Poe House!
The Edgar Allan Poe home in Baltimore is, unfortunately, lacking the financial means to stay afloat. Poe lived there in his last years of life, and Baltimore is of major site-specific importance to his writerly development. Thus, this city landmark…
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Tweet for Public Health
Social media is breaking new ground—it is now a tool that aids in the tracking down of public health crises. Researchers can use twitter to follow the spread of disease, at a much more efficient speed than formerly used surveillance…
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Emerging Empathy
In The Chairs Are Where the People Go, Shelia Heti and Misha Glouberman explore all topics that Glouberman cares about, including feeling like a fraud, seeing John Zorn play Cobra, and asking a good question.
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476 Tracks for Your Electronic Pleasure
Caio Barros, a Brazilian student at the State University of São Paulo, has uploaded an astounding collection of nearly 500 tracks of electronic music from 1937-2001. These tracks, from a 62 CD set called “The History of Electroacoustic Music,” were…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh man, literary rejection just got organized into a wiki. Speaking of literary rejection, uncreative writing is free and ready to read! I hope your coworkers are nice to you. They’re not logos, they’re fauxgos.
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Lucy’s Profound Restoration: The Trailer for Sleeping Beauty
The trailer for Sleeping Beauty (directed by Julia Leigh, 2011) clocking in at just over one minute and 30 seconds,