An Interview with Jon Raymond
Oregonian Jon Raymond stays true to his roots. He has written three films to date (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and his latest, Meek’s Cutoff) all of which are set…
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To Absorb the Appendages of Time
Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams opens in theaters today. You walk out of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams overcome by the power of time. Personally, I find…
Pseudonymously Famous
What happens when a book is shortlisted for the Orwell prize and its author chooses to remain pseudonymous? Possibly, the beginning of a new canon. “Strictly speaking this isn’t anonymity…
Artistic Oppression
Where mythologizing dictators and threatening artists intersect, totalitarian art was born. Find out about this cultural phenomenon and its many historical/contemporary examples. “The crucial element in the creation of totalitarian…
No Trace of Origin, No Thorn
The poems in Copperhead use the deeply wrought questions with which it is concerned to wisely come up with a sort of memoir, which is attaching deeply felt memories with…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sup with all these tornadoes, bros? Behold the Google pedicab. Serbian children are way more surreal than you or I (this is assuming that you are not a Serbian child).…
National Poetry Month, Day 29: “I’m a Poet and I Don’t Know It” by Ariana Reines
I’m a Poet and I Don’t Know It I am so broke Maybe I am a poet I wonder.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Friends with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Salman Rushdie and J.M. Coetzee, witness to 27 revolutions, and journalist of the century in his native Poland–Ryszard Kapuscinski, many believe, was unlucky not to receive…
The Argentine Peso
Are you over the age of 65? Have you published at least five books (with ISBN numbers) or “invested more than 20 years in ‘literary creation'”? If your answer to…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The while iPhone 4, unicorn of the consumer electronics world, hit shelves today after months of delays. Will it cause a spike in sales? What does the device have to…