Saturday Morning Links
So last Saturday, I woke up 41 years old, hung over, and with a non-responsive computer. Doornail-quality dead. Gray screen, blinking folder with question mark, oh crap I can’t afford…
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Burke Hilsabeck: The Last Book I Loved, Cruel Shoes
The last book I loved was Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin. Martin has always been interesting to me because of the way he teeters between hilarious and laughably unfunny. Take…
Accomplices in Her Accomplishment
As much as Intruder makes us look at the difficult, the painful, the ugly, it also gives us a chance to watch the insides of a snow globe swirl, to…
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
“Fitzgerald, to put it mildly, did not impress the studio bosses. The rap against him was that he couldn’t make the shift from words on the page to images on…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #7: Sartre, You’re Such an Asshole
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Sartre, You’re Such an Asshole You thought your derriere off, no beef there. But your heart: was it missing a…
Women’s News
Tina Fey once said, “I think we can all agree that it’s a great time to be a lady in America, and not just because of that new yogurt that…
Morning Coffee
Have you seen Big Picture’s photo-essay on Mars? It is the best thing. What does the grammar of Google searches say about us? I am just linking to this article…
The Rumpus Interview with Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell is about to release a comic that will probably be world-renowned. It’s a compendium of his Alec books, titled Alec: The Years have Pants, which have long been…