Honoring an Amazing Writer and Father
“He had raised three of us single-handedly following my mother’s premature death when we were five, seven and nine. It was the 60s, when single fathers didn’t do that sort…
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Single Sentence Animation: Lydia Davis’s “The Cows”
Artist Donna K. riffs off a sentence from author Lydia Davis’s “The Cows,” featured in Electric Literature No. 2.
Nights of Siberia
Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Joseph Kessel’s Les Nuits de Siberie (1928):
In the Art Rags
Larry Sultan is dead. The photographer behind Pictures from Home passed away from cancer on Sunday at the age of 63. The SF Chron, NY Times, and LA Times have…
Pictory Magazine’s San Francisco Feature
The newly-launched and amazing Pictory Magazine just published a beautiful and interesting showcase of twenty-eight photos of San Francisco; don’t miss their first showcase, Overseas and Overwhelmed, either!
Morning Coffee
Dash Shaw’s mini-comic for Vice is pretty great. Britain’s first full-scale high speed rail is up and running (and pretty looking!) In case you forgot, Big Picture’s photographs of 2009…
Swinging Modern Sounds #18: Some Questions About the Tradition
Johnny Cash’s late covers are superior to their original recordings, but are they traditional?
How To Write Memoir
This Friday, in Brooklyn, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is giving a lecture on using your life in your writing, using examples from The Adderall Diaries. He’ll talk about writing about…
eBook Rights
“After noting that most of Random House’s backlist titles grant the publisher electronic book rights […], [CEO Markus Dohle] writes that ‘there have been some misunderstandings concerning ebook rights in…
Seth on the Quiet Art of Cartooning
Recently I was reminded of this lovely little essay by the cartoonist Seth, about the solitary art of cartooning. From his description I’d say that cartooning — at least fiction…
Reviewer and Reviewee
Shya Scanlon posted on Big Other about an extremely harsh review of Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash written by Tom Bissell for the New York Times. The post led to…