Detroit’s Beautiful Ruins
A haunting essay/slide show about Detroit. The day before I arrived, the frozen body of a man was found in the elevator shaft of an abandoned warehouse; only the feet…
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Saturday Morning Links
Rory McInnes, budding artist in search of attention from Google Earth. And as long as I’m acting like a twelve year old, a Florida eighth-grader gets kicked off the school…
Life’s Only as Bad as You Make It Out to Be
Chris Feliciano Arnold reviews Nami Mun’s debut novel, Miles from Nowhere.
THE EYEBALL: Pig Hunt and Lost Season 4
Tuesday night I had the pleasure of reading a short story at therumpus.net’s Seattle launch party, prior to a screening of the film Pig Hunt. Director Jim Isaac served up…
On the Importance of the Single Panel Comic and Other Acts
Full disclosure: this is my friend. His name is Isaac Littlejohn Eddy. I like him. I met Isaac when I was 16 and he was older. We chopped wood in…
The Last Book I Loved: Olive Kitteridge
I’m now reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and I’m awe-struck. This is exquisite writing and masterful story-telling. She creates a community of characters, all revolving around Olive in odd…
Sex With Presidents
The artist Justine Lai depicts herself having sex with each US president, painting them in order. She’s gotten as far as Ulysses S. Grant. (NSFW)
The Rumpus Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has directed movies at an extraordinary pace: some forty-two since 1973, averaging, in recent years, two or three a year.
A Childish Fantasy
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong…
The Last Book I Loved: Alina Simone, Unlovable
Unlovable (Fantagraphics Books) is a graphic novel by Esther Pearl Watson that is based on a diary the author found in a gas station bathroom in the 1980’s belonging to…
Kerouac’s lost French works
The Words without Borders blog has a fascinating post on two novellas by Jack Kerouac in his native French, works that were written in the early 1950s and which reflect…
The Library of Congress, on Flickr
The library of Congress has been slowly uploading their entire photo archives onto flickr, just this year they’ve been working on a series of photochrom’s taken between 1890 and 1910,…