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Morning Coffee
Bettie Page: FBI Consultant. Not feeling so hot these days? Google is watching out for you. A psychedelic (and awesome) look at the Glass House. Design as performance art. Objectively…
THE JUMP OFF: The Sam Lipsyte Players
As part of our event, A Night Together, which was co-presented with Tin House and Flavorpill on April 6, we held a contest to give writers the chance to win…
The First Time Since 1981
“[Erika] Goldman is Editorial Director of Bellevue Literary Press, the tiny imprint behind Tinkers. To call it a surprise that Bellevue published a Pulitzer-winning novel — the first small press…
“More Than Poetry”
“Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power…
April’s Monthly Rumpus
Did you miss the last Monthly Rumpus at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco? Or, where you in attendance but you just need, need, to relive the laughter, the tears,…
Cradle Song
Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power…
Documenting Burroughs
“Each person can draw something completely different from him because he’s so multifaceted. I think it depends on the reader, but for me, I was first drawn to his awareness…
10/40/70 #3: Raising Cain
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…
“Under the Influence”
“Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) Hot tea and sherry “Raymond Chandler, The Blue Dahlia (1946) Gimlets and vitamin shots “Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine (1829-1848)…
Library of Congress to Collect All Tweets
“Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.” The message above was tweeted this morning by @librarycongress, the The Library of…