Resident Bohemians: Gerald Busby, The Tender Hooligan
Gerald Busby’s music for ‘3 Women’ is so perfect I don’t know how to talk about it. – Robert Altman Several years ago, a friend recommended I rent Three Women,…
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Amazon, Eh?
Canadians, especially those who make a living selling books, are not taking kindly to the fact that “Amazon has applied to the Canadian government for permission to establish a new…
Morning Coffee
Environmental Graffiti takes a look at Germany’s hanging railway. We usually try to stay away from commercial stuff like this, but we think it’s pretty rad that Tropicana literally built…
The Rumpus Interview with Chang-rae Lee
I have been stalking—I mean reading—Chang-rae Lee since his first book, Native Speaker, was published in 1994.
“A Very Circuitous Path”
“It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear–I floundered about for many years. I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a…
Teenagers from Mars
Peter Bognanni’s first novel mixes punk rock and the wild creativity of Buckminster Fuller into a tender and believable chronicle of teen sorrow.
The DFW Archive
The other day we reported that the archive of David Foster Wallace had been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center. But what, exactly, “is in the collection?” The New Yorker‘s…
“They’re holding these people hostage to make a political point.”
In response to the Colorado state legislature “passing a law imposing sales tax on all online retailers that sell into the state,” Amazon has “terminated its Associates program.” Not ones…