2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us now take a look at the Bank of Moscow(why? why not?). Good news everyone, the timer on the Wiimote is more accurate than a stopwatch. The influence of water absorption on the processing and quality of Oriental noodles.…
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A Conversation with a Soldier
Note: All names have been changed. Major Mark Ross is currently home from Iraq. He has had two tours of duty and will redeploy in a year. He knows he suffers from PTSD and that returning to battle is unhealthy,…
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Zadie Smith On Novel Writing
“Fiction needs intellect, but it can’t survive on intellect alone. . .It has to arrive at the other embarrassing things, things that seem too banal to talk about in like the appreciation of small details of things that other people…
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Paris Review Spring Issue
Paris Review announces it’s Spring Issue which will include the first part of a serialized novel by Bolaño!
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Google or Facebook might buy Twitter? Obama’s plan to expand wireless access. A bizarre and riveting tale of how one man claimed to figure out the members of the Anonymous hacker group, and the vengeance they wreaked upon him. Egypt…
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Listen
A fascinating radio piece from the BBC featuring our own Rick Moody and others: “Endnotes: David Foster Wallace.”
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On Prose, Pararadoxes and Proofs
“But even from the inside of a human life, it’s possible to see when you’ve made a baby seal out of thin air, and someone is coming along to bash its head in with a club, because its coat is…
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Ex Poetry
“Fifteen years after we broke up, my ex-boyfriend published a book of poetry.” Lisa Catherine Harper tackles poems about her former self that were written by her former boyfriend.
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
Before the fiasco of the “rock musical” Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Julie Taymor worked in smaller savageries, especially Titus (1999), her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. The movie was a bit of an easy target. It was released after…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
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Gabi on the Roof in July (in San Francisco)
Tonight is the final screening of Gabi on the Roof in July at the San Francisco Indiefest. If you’ve seen Tiny Furniture, you’ll appreciate that both movies feature hipster hamster’s that die unexpectedly. But Gabi‘s hamster could beat up Tiny‘s.…