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…
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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?…
Wanderlust: A One Question Interview with Mikael Kennedy
“Whether or not the stories are ‘true’ is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth.” – Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The poet Deborah Digges died April 10, and there’s been a number of remembrances posted online, along with stories and selections from from her work. Ron Silliman notes the passing…
The Rumpus Review of Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Even though Rawson Marshall Thurber’s film The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is based on a Michael Chabon novel of the same name, its title is misleading.
Swedish Pirates on the Rise
Most internet users have probably had some contact with The Pirate Bay, even if it’s indirect. It’s the Napster of bittorrent streaming, by which I mean it’s the loudest, most…