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Giant Squid Takes Michigan
In a 10,000 square foot art space in Grand Rapids, a sixty-foot squid floats above an antique desk that is covered with nautical books, prints, a tape recorder, life preservers,…
A Poet’s Hilly Jaunts
San Franciscan essayist and poet W.S. Di Piero has written an poetical rhythmic essay about his jaunts throughout this mounded metropolis a great many of us call home. In it, he…
Help Save Darfur, Read
Rutgers University Press has published the book Dedicated To The People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope which includes a smattering of notable authors such as the late…
Morning Coffee
I don’t know if anyone has noticed this yet, but it is Autumn. The bitter lapse into everyday life. Wayne Levin’s haunting underwater photography. How to convert old factory buildings…
France’s Fixed-Price Book Law
France has a law in place, established in 1981, that requires all booksellers in the country — big-box stores, independent stores, online retailers — to sell a given book at…
Maybe I Actually Do Approve of Gimmicky Art Installed in Boutique Hotels
Because this video mural, installed in an elevator in the new Standard in New York, is mesmerising.
The Last Book I Loved: Berlin
I’m going to say something a reviewer should never say about a series still in development: Berlin is a great book. We’re only up to book two [Berlin Book One:…
Learning to Fall: Jesse Hotchkiss at Thinkspace
Thinkspace gallery in Los Angeles is preparing for a December 11 exhibition that includes new works by Jesse Hotchkiss. Check out a sneak peek of the exhibit, “Learning to Fall,”…
A Vowel Away From Master
These poems often resist the reader in the same way his speaker resists his father, but the book’s exploration of such distance creates a closeness between the reader and the…
Corduroy for Fops and Fly Girls
Today, 11/11, is Corduroy Appreciation Day. In honor of this wonderfully waled fabric, the Corduroy Appreciation Club is holding a Grand Meeting at the Old American Can Factory with keynote…