A Story of Le Loup (or: Notes For & Against a Musical Auteur Theory)
My first introduction to Le Loup’s debut album The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly came in isolation. This was an album to be listened…
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Olive or Twist?
“Deus Ex Machina + Fantasy = Eagles” A surprise ending cheat sheet from the webcomic Dresden Codak: “42 Essential Third-Act Twists For Writers.” (via Boing Boing)
What Is an Anthem
A poet doesn’t review the poems in G.C. Waldrep’s Archicembalo—she listens to them.
Stephanie Johnson’s Microfiction
“This book is like a photo album made of pictures collected at random from people on a busy street; each story is a single moment that comes from a different…
A Battlefield at Night
The site EnglishRussia recently published some stunning photos of the Russian Army doing battlefield exercises at night, taken from a hill high above the field.
What the Nobel Prize Does for Small Publishers
Over at The Millions, C. Max Magee has written an article about what being awarded the Nobel Prize does for a book and its publisher from an American perspective. Being…
Morning Coffee
Spanish street art is a pretty good way to start a day. Whale shark! a new London exhibit considers what museums should throw away. Bad ass authors more bad ass…
The Rumpus Interview with Frank Plant
I like things to be accessible; it’s important for me to communicate to the non-art crowd as well as those more versed in art appreciation so I keep the entrance…
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Defriendship (Part 2)
Cut yourself hundreds of times with the pages of a Truth Serum book!
Another Bold Declaration About The YouTube Mash-Up
First, it ascended to high art with Kutiman’s assemblage of unrelated music clips into original jams. Now the ante has been officially upped by Darren Solomon, who combined twenty YouTube…