2011
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A Champion for Writers
Bay Area Readers: Canteen is honoring our great friend Oscar Villalon tonight at a gala fundraiser featuring Robert Mailer Anderson, Leah Garchik, literary fortune telling, a silent auction, and much more. We love Canteen and we love Oscar. Here’s your…
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Libros Schmibros
Not only is Libros Schmibros the best name we’ve ever heard of for a bookstore, but we’re also pretty big fans of the well-named store’s business plan: acting like a library.
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The Rumpus Interview with Patrick DeWitt
The Rumpus talks to Patrick DeWitt about his new book, The Sisters Brothers, the story of two brothers in Gold Rush California.
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Tara Donovan Draws with Pins
I can’t get enough of Tara Donovan’s work, so I was excited to see a new series of pin placements, like so:
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Photo + Poetry
“The Phone Booth” by Raymond Carver paired with 2314c by Todd Hido. Beautiful. (via @DougMcGray)
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New Rituals for Curbside Healing
The poems in Signs And Wonders have a moral and structural grace that is sometimes fueled by political anger or collective sorrow.
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Want a Private Life? Don’t Become a Teacher
Judy Buranich teaches English at Midd West High School in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. She’s held that job for 25 years. Judy Mays writes erotic novels. By now, you probably know where this is going. They’re the same person, and some…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Y’all see this Chernobyl street art? The Kingdoms of Science (I live for this stuff). Is it weird to other people that the internet has been around long enough to feel nostalgic about how news sites used to look? (via…
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National Poetry Month, Day 27: “The Accused Terrorist’s Wife” by Shara Lessley
The Accused Terrorist’s Wife The house foreclosed, she’s gone to his father’s home, carting her things, a pair of his shoes, their only daughter, sons. Water springs
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A Field Unfenced: Remembering Craig Arnold
We were sitting in an unfamiliar building on campus, my student Natalie and I, talking about the poet we were reading for that week, Craig Arnold.
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Things You Never Got to Hear Faulkner Say
When Faulkner addressed English classes at the University of Mississippi in 1947, he offered some interesting advice (there is always time for writing, it’s not good to wait when feeling inspired, the peak age for fiction writing is 35-45, etc.).…