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No Lights, Nobody Home
Alex Taylor’s collection of stories set in Kentucky channels Southern greats like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
Pimp Flow Chart
First, a question. If you were a proprietor of a criminal organization with a cliched (and apparently universal) flamboyant aesthetic, don’t you think that you might one day decide to…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #30
PUPPIES ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing puppies.
Movies, Briefly: Play Misty For Me (1971)
When Clint Eastwood made Play Misty for Me he was a cowboy. He got his start on television with Rawhide and of course became an international star in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns.…
Persian Handstands
These paintings come mostly from two books: Qajar Paintings (1972) and Qajar Portraits (1999) (the latter going for an obscene $500 on Amazon at the moment):
Joy in Eccentricity
Who knew there were still roving bands of dancing hermaphrodites and eunuchs? Even more surprising is the fact that hijira, as the gypsy-like middlesex is called in South Asia, are…
Jump-Off Winners Announced
Our Jump-Off contest was enthusiastically received. We’re happy about that. We’d like to thank all who put in the time and thought to enter. We had asked entrants to submit…
National Poetry Month: Day 6. “Say Something” by Katrina Vandenberg
Say something about the old neighbor who lives alone, the woman no one has seen in years, if at all. Say she cracked her yellowed shade and spoke to you,…
Morning Coffee
Propeller Mag has been collecting the various terrible covers for Karel Capek‘s super great War With the Newts. An affront to human decency: proper nouns to be allowed in Scrabble.…