Loud Libraries
Yesterday we mentioned that it’s National Library Week, a time to celebrate all things bibliotheca. But author Sung J. Woo is using the week in a more somber way, to…
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The Journalist and the Autobiography
“Memory is not a journalist’s tool. Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clearly. Memory does not narrate or render character. Memory has no regard for the reader.…
More Bolaño
“I’ll tell you everything, naturally.” The New Yorker has posted “Prefiguration of Lalo Cura,” a short story by Roberto Bolaño, online. Enjoy. (via PW)
National Poetry Month: Day 14. “My Father Finally Says Out Loud the Word I’ve Only Heard Him Think” by Stacey Lynn Brown
My Father Finally Says Out Loud the Word I’ve Only Heard Him Think Calling it a rehab center doesn’t change this nursing home, doesn’t daub dry the drool or bring…
Morning Coffee
The Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements. Jason Laferrera’s map birds are pretty cool. Behold the world’s oldest solar panel. An entirely new form of life has been discovered, which doesn’t…
THE BLURB #15: The Monster Impulse
The panic that pervades these stories arises because in our real, human world there is too much cause for fear and worry. Who, exactly, is responsible for the deteriorating environment? What, precisely, causes terrorism? Enter the bugbears and scapegoats.
Movies, Briefly: Night and the City (1950)
We meet Night and the City‘s protagonist Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) in his natural state: on the run from his creditors. Things are bad for Harry before the movie begins…
The Rumpus Review of The Secret in Their Eyes
The richest articulation yet of Campanella’s restrained visual wit and uniquely humanist aesthetic, and one of the few genuinely sensitive thrillers ever made.