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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I’m always interested in the different ways poets are exploring to get poems out to the reading public. Cellpoems calls itself “a txt-msg poetry journal,” though thankfully none of the…
A Brief Bob Barker-ish Rant
My partner Amy and I are cat people. Until last summer, we had two–we adopted a third and a fourth attached herself to us a couple of months after we…
Science Saturday
A team of scientists says they’ve mapped the color scheme of the oldest discovered feathered dinosaur. Gene patents are under attack in federal court. Good. Shackleton’s whiskey is being recovered…
Saturday Morning Links
I would totally buy this. If it were real. And assuming I needed a chain saw. Twitpics are no big deal. Twitpics from space, though… I’m sure I’m not the…
LIVRENBLOG
I first featured Livrenblog back in January 2009. Since that time I’ve been ogling many more treasures from this wonderful French blog. Here is a taste of what you will…
Patti Smith Reads Just Kids
Yesterday we published Blythe Sheldon’s review of Patti Smith’s Just Kids, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. Now you can hear Smith herself read from the book, thanks to…
Timothy McSweeney
“Readers of this site and of McSweeney’s generally may be aware that this enterprise was named after a real man named Timothy McSweeney. […] We bring today the news that…
Robert Walser’s Microscripts
The Center for the Art of Translation has an interview up with Susan Bernofsky, translator of Robert Walser’s novel The Tanners, among other works. She talks about the six volumes…
Dash Snow. Creative Master. Baiter.
Artist Dash Snow’s life was cut short at twenty-seven years when he overdosed last summer in his hometown of New York City in a destructive solo hotel stint. Snow created…