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The Rumpus Interview with Poetry Rock Star Eileen Myles
“Waste is good, important. Especially in art. It’s not the perfectly placed and chosen object that rules. It’s a pile of things and one might catch your eye but its…
“Baywatch,” “Short People,” and “Saving Wasted Breath”
Three poems by Jennifer L. Knox, author of Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, have been posted over at The Awl. Give ’em a read. (via @R_Nash)
Larry Is Also Troubled By a Bear
“Composed as a series of vignettes, pivotal moments in a troubled man’s peripatetic life, the narrative flits within the gray area between poetry and prose and, while it dispenses with…
Fog Is Also Good for This
Jamie Iredell weaves a drug-and-alcohol fueled journey out of brief, vivid bursts of language.
Equinox Oral Histories #2
As part of Daniel Nester’s English 251: Interviews and Oral History class, students took trips down to Equinox, a community services center in downtown Albany, New York, to interview some…
A Disarming Post-Adolescent Intensity
“His prose may often rest on a banality (“we like to feel superior to others. But our problem is that we’re not superior”) but his inner turmoil over such bland ideas,…
The Last Book I Loved: Await Your Reply
Await Your Reply moved me because it is a novel that tells the tale of a few people searching for identity while leaving old ones behind.
Eskimo Grasshoppers: French Children’s Books of the 30s and 40s
1948, Apoutsiak, written and illustrated by Paul Emile Victor
Morning Coffee
Evidently we’re thinking about cities today. New Scientist takes an in-depth look at drowned cities, fact and fiction. Thank you New Scientist. The winning design for Mexico’s pavillion at the…