Sound & Vision: Matt Sullivan
Allyson McCabe talks with Matt Sullivan, founder of Light in the Attic Records, about how he’s preserved the label's commitment to great music while also meeting the demands of a changing, and often challenging, market.
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2017
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Next Letter in the Mail: Rich Ferguson
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail from Rich Ferguson! Rich writes to us about discovering that he enjoys fatherhood, and what he’s learned from being…
Paul Madonna Moves on to the Next Dream
We are excited to offer a preview of artwork from Paul Madonna's new book, On to the Next Dream, alongside an interview with our current Comics Editor, Brandon Hicks, and an exclusive excerpt.
Notable San Francisco: 3/29–4/4
Wednesday 3/29: Poet Larry Beckett (Beat Poetry) considers the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s as literature. Free, 7 p.m., The Beat Museum. USF’s Emerging Writers Festival…
This Week in Essays
For Electric Literature, Christine Vines ably dissects the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and finds it wanting, with the notable conclusion that “We still have a problem with the word ‘crazy’ and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning coffee
will return tomorrow morning. The world is falling apart, but is it ever not? Be good to each other.
Corinne Lee and Finding an Antidote to America’s Toxicity
Poet Corinne Lee on writing her epic book-length poem Plenty and finding new ways to live in a rapidly changing world.
Album of the Week: Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me
Mount Eerie, the musical project of songwriter and producer Phil Elverum, has a new album and it’s a personal and moving journey into the loss of Elverum’s wife, Genevieve. He wrote on…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 9): “The City Limits”
[A] nation’s poetry degenerates if it does not embody the language of what is mysterious...
Notable Philadelphia: 3/28–4/3
Tuesday 3/28: Lithuania, NE-HI, and Laser Background. 7:30 p.m. at PhilaMOCA, $10. Moving Sale! 12 p.m.–8 p.m. at R&D Vinyl, free. Wednesday 3/29: Excuse My Dust: Poetry and Humor. Featuring: Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, Chris…
This Week in Indie Bookstores
If you are looking for an indie store in Chicago, the Chicago Review of Books has a roundup of local options. Gun nuts are so afraid of books, they’re taking…
The Strangely Plausible Abyss of American War
In Akkad’s dystopian scenario, the US faces a resurgent Mexico and a vast and newly powerful North African-Arabian empire.