2011
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For Those Without Travel Plans
Feeling down about the stagnant state of your summer? These essays on failed vacations and un-fun trips will make you glad. Stories feature David Sedaris and David Foster Wallace, and other great authors. The perils of Disney World, the deep…
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No One Can Take a Bath for You: Why I Write
The other day, a friend of mine said he was giving up writing. This friend happens to be a very good writer. Why? I asked. Too many people already write about the things I write about, he said. I thought…
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Happy Bloomsday!
It’s the 107th anniversary of everybody’s favorite James Joycian holiday! That’s right—Bloomsday, the 24 hr period in which Leopold Bloom makes his way through Dublin in Ulysses. One way to appreciate those 265,000 words is through twitter or there’s always…
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Alina Simone Has Arrived
Alina Simone, who just double-impressed us with her reading/musical performance at the last monthly Rumpus, was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. Her first book, You Must Go and Win, chock-full of wandering tales and witticisms and her latest album,…
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Revolutionary Writing
Revolutionary writing from Ché Guevara, Diary of a Combatant, is being published for the first time in Cuba. The diaries document Ché’s time in Cuba from 1956 through 1958 were postponed due to a case of missing notebooks. “The book…
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Catalogs and Covers
What does a memoir that documents the painful loss of a family member and J. Crew’s summer catalog have in common? Nothing, which is why memoirist Robin Romm wrote this piece in Slate about their eerily similar aesthetic. The popsicle…
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Hold for Laughs
The AFI Directing Workshop for Women has been dedicated to developing the talent of the next generation of film and TV female directors since 1974. Amy French, one of last year’s eight AFI DWW fellows, generated some buzz with her…
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Let’s Take a Walk Together
James Yeh writes on the Spontaneous Society for Faster Times, Jon Cotner’s ambulatory, real-life interaction/art installation, inciting strangers to interact positively with one another. The project was created in hopes of reigniting a certain kind of social spontaneity that is…
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Nosowsky Interview and Rumpus Praise
Author Meghan Ward interviews the Editor-at-Large of Graywolf Press, Ethan Nosowsky on her awesome blog, Writerland. The future of publishing, the utility of social media for publishers, and the literary blogs worth checking out, are all part of the dialogue.…
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Dressed to Kill
I’m probably way behind the times here, but I’ve just discovered this project by artist Megan Rosalarian Gedris in which she cross-dresses male superheroes. But she’s doing more than just changing their outfits–after all, male superheroes in comic books are…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Big hack of the day: the CIA, by LulzSec. And they released 62,000 password and login combinations with a challenge to hackers to find out where they work. Now, the security breaches are escalating to an all-out hacker war between…