2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to find a giant squid Florida. I happen to really like Robert Montgomery’s billboard pieces. Let’s talk about interestingly bound books, yes? Old frying pans and surprisingly fascinating. That sentence said frying pants for a second by the way.…
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Lattimore
Most often associated with chamber ensembles and orchestras, the harp first gained pop music cred thanks to the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”
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First Muses
Remember your first muse? “My first muse was a chubby, bespectacled, brown-eyed, sharply intelligent 13-year-old boy in Phoenix, Arizona in 1975. When he laughed at and loved my writing, I felt the erotic surge of my own power. Since then,…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The + project, Google’s answer to social networking, launched today. The Supreme Court sayz: Cali can’t ban selling violent video games to kids. The hacking group LulzSec is disbanding. A long-exposure photo of a Roomba’s path. Some canned responses to…
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Site for Cities
A new destination awaits the city dwellers, lovers, and planners among us. Yesterday The Atlantic announced its plans to launch The Atlantic Cities in September. The imminent site will be “dedicated to the global cities and neighborhoods where we live,…
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Why Fiction?
Why do people (with some notable exceptions) continue to read literary fiction in our rather tenuous literary culture? The Millions’ Jon Baskin reviews Timothy Aubry’s Reading as Therapy, which tackles this question. Examining American reading habits, Aubry teases out the…
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Never That Young
“I have all the habits of someone who lived [in New York City] in the ’70s,” Fran Lebowitz tells City Room. “Which is that, if I have a pencil, I have a death grip on it. I see the people…
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FUNNY WOMEN #57: That’s Absolutely Not What She Said
The infamous “She” of the “That’s What She Said” jokes has released a new tell-all book making shocking claims about the joke’s validity.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Sparrow” by Melissa Kwasny
I’ll be honest: I’m not usually much of a fan of prose poems. I like lineation, form, structure. Give me meter, syllabics, some rules to cling to—if I want a poem that looks like a chunky little square of prose,…
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Tomi Ungerer Re-appreciation
Tomi Ungerer, writer of over 150 books, illustrator, engineer and designer of a cat-shaped kindergarten, considers himself “basically an author,” amidst all his varying accomplishments. This NY Times article features an excerpt from an interview. Recently, his career has been…
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Spooky Action at a Distance: David Lynch, Split Edit Realism, and Other Mysteries
There is a moment in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990) that cuts from Lula’s (Laura Dern’s) feet stomping in excitement on a bed to those same feet stomping in dance mode in a bar to the sound of the…
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The Minutiae of Humpback Whale Calls
Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg recently sat down for a public lecture with Laurie Anderson at the venerable Explorer’s Club in New York City. In their conversation they discussed a wide variety of topics including the minutiae of the calls…