November 2015
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Mary Gaitskill Procrastinates Too
For The Millions, Chelsea Voulgares talks to Mary Gaitskill about her new novel The Mare and how to establish productive writing habits: I’m not consistent like some people seem to be. Sometimes I don’t write at all. If I’m not really working on…
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Nearer to Nonsense
If “show, don’t tell” were really that great advice, why bother writing anything at all? Slate’s Forrest Wickman makes the case for saying what you mean: Twenty-first-century tastemakers like to think of themselves as beyond highbrow vs. lowbrow—that monocle popped…
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Erykah Badu’s One-Human Show
Live Nudity: Meditate on Deez, Erykah Badu’s one-human show, has premiered at the Naomi Bruton Main Stage at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas (Badu’s hometown). Okayplayer has an exclusive on the event and as far as…
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Quoting Cheryl Strayed
And now I look back and think I’m so glad that I was brave enough to break my own heart—and I wish that I had been braver sooner because maybe I would have broken his a little less. Over at…
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Paper Trumpets #28: Mystery of the Triangles
I’m not going to get brainy and talk about the mathematics of triangles; I simply like the visual energy in its slants, which, depending on its position in a collage, can suggest movement, growth, or escape.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Kyle Boelte
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Kyle Boelte! Kyle writes to us about how writing his book freed him to try the drugs he’d been afraid of all his life and the…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #8: Abortion: My Body, My Choice
“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women…
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Sometimes English Needs to be Broken
Nationally touring poet, performer, and writer Fatimah Asghar is “almost always in-between two places.” Her parents were born in Kashmir and Pakistan. They moved to the US, and died when she was five. In Corinne Segal’s article, Asghar describes her “brokenness”…
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Notable San Francisco: 11/4–11/10
Wednesday 11/04: Pandemonium Press presents 1st Wednesdays In The Loft, featuring MK Chavez, Sharon Coleman, Andrew Dugas, and Rafael Jesús González. On guitar: Hao Tran. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic precedes and follows the featured readers. Free, 6:45 p.m.,…
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Visceral Vignettes
I sort of just follow the impulse to go there and to sit with an uncomfortable emotion or an uncomfortable physical thing. In conversation with radio host David Naimon, writer Amelia Gray talks about her new short story collection, Gutshot;…
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Lydia Davis Not a Love Junkie
Over at Electric Literature, John Freeman shares his experiences working as an editor with Lydia Davis and investigates what makes Davis “such a tremendous writer on love”: Her stories tighten and tighten around the narrator’s assumptions and build a kind of…
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Errata by Lisa Fay Coutley
Allison Donohue reviews Lisa Fay Coutley’s Errata today in Rumpus Poetry.