The Last Poem I Loved: “Prayer Before Birth” by Louis MacNeice
After years of people telling me that I would love Louis MacNeice, last week I stumbled on “Prayer Before Birth”. In the poem, the notion of the undead, the nosferatu…
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Onward Christian History! An Update
A month ago, I blogged about an attempt by the Christian fundamentalist community in Texas to change the history and social sciences curricula for K-12 textbooks. There’s been a fair…
Saturday Morning Links
Well, it’s been a hell of a Spring Break for me, and there’s still a couple of days of it left. Let’s get to it. If you’re about to go…
Single Sentence Animation
Artist Vance Reeser animates a sentence from Matt Sumell’s short story “Little Things,” available in Electric Literature No.3.
Jason Epstein on Publishing’s Future
Jason Epstein started out as an editor and publisher in a now-vanished era — his first editorial job was at Random House in 1949 — and he was a co-founder…
“I’d much rather be 49 than 20.”
“The reason I’m still around through all this is persistence. And the fact that I’ve always gone for myself, in that I’ve never hooked onto a trend, it was just…
Jennifer Gilmore
“It’s actually quite frightening to be an author and know the business side of publishing. I imagine it’s easier to be in Iowa and not know what’s going on with…
The Rumpus Review of Shutter Island
When Scorsese makes a new film, the question is less whether it’s good than whether the decision to make it in the first place was good.
Getting Published
“What I’d like to ask you is if you have any reading suggestions for finding out about the ins and outs of book and magazine publishing.” The Millions answers with…