Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Note: I’m adding this late, but it’s important. Our sincerest condolences go out to the friends and family and admirers of Lucille Clifton, who died yesterday at the age of…
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Onward Christian History!
If you’re the kind of person who keeps tabs on the latest from fundamentalist Christians in the US, the story I’m about to link to might contain some facts you…
Science Saturday
Beautiful images of the Hourglass Nebula. Astronauts are having problems installing the new room on the International Space Station. Which NY Times stories tend to be emailed most? The answer…
Saturday Morning Links
If you were unclear as to just how anal sex works, gay marriage opponent Rep. Nancy Elliott (R-NH) has the lowdown for you. (Spoiler: she’s against it.) Is this “mixing”…
The Rumpus Short Interview with Guy Raz: “Three-Minute Fiction”
When Guy Raz officially became the weekend host of NPR’s All Things Considered last summer, two of his goals were to make the show more interactive and to somehow get…
“We Got Lost for a While”
“[The Ticking is the Bomb] pushes readers to acknowledge, if not meditate on, the urges lurking inside us, those we tamp down in order to continue, to resist the impulses…
The Rumpus Valentine’s Day Review of Drenched
[T]he universe of Marisa Matarazzo’s first book is soaked through, awash in torrential love and water.
Swinging Modern Sounds #20: Who’s Afraid of Serious Music?
Once, many years ago, I was at an artist’s colony in New Hampshire, The MacDowell Colony. I could never spend much time at MacDowell without suffering with paralyzing loneliness, and…
“Feeling Like I Was Getting Somewhere.”
“My own path into writing songs comes directly through literature. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a capital-A author, and I wrote short stories on an old…
Mo Money Mo Problems
“Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come.” Karl Rabeder is a millionaire, but “he is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune” because he is unsatisfied…