THE LONELY VOICE: A New Column About The Short Story by Peter Orner
The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between a pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life. It’s all a matter…
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Function Follows Funmaking
Need tips on concealing erections, sucking face with a flourish or setting a classic dinner table in three minutes or less? Visit Howcast.com, a site, founded in 2007 by defectors…
Women, Water, Oil
Alyssa Monks paints women through the distorted lens of water, and her newest round of work puts them in the steamy cage of the shower, where their breasts and bellies…
Through the Past Darkly
Brian Teare’s second book sorts through the past and charts a new path for the future of poetry.
A New Frontier of Virtual Value and Stetsons
Since 1997, the art collaborative the eteam, aka Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, has been creating events, installations and videos that explore the way environmental changes affect how people act.…
Jenny Davidson; The Last Book I Loved, Yes, My Darling Daughter
At this time of the school year I am basically calling on all the powers of the novel to fend off incipient overwork-driven nervous breakdown – I roam around my…
The Rumpus Interview with Michael Pollan
“I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories… And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is…
Morning Coffee
This flickr photo pool of grain elevators is entirely hypnotic. Thank you Death Wish Three for bringing this to our attention. Should our online relationships effect our real life relationships?…