Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fun to live in a world where the University of Hawaii has to send an email about nuclear attacks. It is time to acknowledge we don’t really understand death. At…
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It’s All Finger-Pointing at the Moon: A Conversation with Carolyn Zaikowski
Carolyn Zaikowski discusses her most recent book, In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse, the psychology of repetition, and honoring the power of language.
Notable Twin Cities: 10/22–10/28
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
What to Read When It’s Been a Hell of a Year
Each of these books, in various ways, wound the crank on my empathy machine, and reminded me that telling a story can be a defiant act.
HORN! REVIEWS: Walden
While he doesn't offer all the answers we want, he reminds us that we don't see things as they are, which is key to anything.
Playing with Genre: Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling
Whether you read it as poetry or memoir, this collection will invite you into the delicate balance between the challenging, sometimes squalid, human condition and the beauty and sadness of the transcendent.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
An atlas of the (literal) underworld. The sublime folk art of sports chants. Here’s that 2,000 year old bog butter you were looking for. Actually, your dog is probably just…
Writing the Truth: A Conversation with David Hicks
David Hicks discusses his debut novel, White Plains, how much truth resides in a work of fiction, and becoming a full-time fiction writer.
The Rumpus Mini Interview #106: Louise Marburg
The stories [in THE TRUTH ABOUT ME], like Marburg herself, are insightful, witty, to the point, and told with her wonderfully dry sense of humor.