2011
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Elisa Albert
Albert, who is at work on her second novel, describes both books as “personal” as opposed to autobiographical, although they are rooted in her own experiences.
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Orientation ♥
“The story collection is made up of moments, one after another, of startlingly poignant yet ostensibly ordinary interactions.” Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi loves this month’s selection, Orientation by Daniel Orozco.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Ack! Android phones vulnerable to attack. Netflix streaming is now the single largest source of Internet traffic in America. The US government sayz: hack us and we might bomb you. Write yr senator & support a new bill that would…
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“Amazing”
“She understands my book better than I do.” David Carr tweets praise for Denise Grollmus’s essay “The Drunkalogues,” in which she discusses The Night of the Gun and other alcoholism memoirs.
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Today’s Fake Interview
We just published an interview with artist, Edie Fake, who was semi-nomadic but is currently Chicago-based. He talks about touring the country on a bus, illustrating thought-projecting nose cones and conflating comic books and animated film styles to create a…
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Revolutionary Wikipedia
All of us Wikipedia users are constantly reaping the benefits of massive information-based collaboration. This essay, published in the Awl, considers why this resource is so essential in our digital age. Anybody who has ever accidently cited Wikipedia on a…
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The Drunkalogues
In the rooms of AA, recovery narratives save lives. In literature, they do something else.
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The SF Dweller
Broke-Ass Stuart’s site-specific musings on the San Francisco living experience are illustrated by our very own comic master, Wendy MacNaughton in the Bold Italic. He breaks down the major SF living points and she makes them into aesthetically pleasing diagrams,…
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Troublesome Tomes
“When you read the kind of novel that promises to increase the strength of your upper-body as much as the height of your brow […] there’s an awe about the scale of the work which, rightly, informs your response to…
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SEO Killed the Headline Star?
On the importance of “Saving Witty Headlines in the Age of Search Engine Optimization.”