Thinking Chair
“One day I found a loose rock with a flat face and the idea for ‘Thinking Chair’, a self-portrait of this experience, came into being.” —Arthur Ganson
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More Rules of Writing
In 2001, Elmore Leonard, famous for his crime fiction and suspense thrillers, wrote a spicy essay for The New York Times cataloging his suggestions for good writing, or, rather, he…
BAD MOMMY BLOG: Happy Valentine’s Day—I Give You My Vagina
Within one minute of meeting my waxer I am on a bed, naked from the waist down and her hand is on my vagina. I’m trying to think of something…
The (Old) New Leader
In January 2006, The New Leader stopped print publication, an early omen to The Christian Science Monitor. But this eighty-five-year old magazine continues to publish bimonthly in the form of…
Machine with Wishbone
“Caught in a symbiotic relationship, both the wishbone and the machine are unable to manifest fully without the other. We drag our pasts with us and move according to unseen…
Amy Crehore’s “Dreamgirls & Ukes”
Oregon-based artist Amy Crehore opens her solo show at Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, this Friday, February 13. Crehore has painted over a dozen antique ukuleles as part of this exhibit,…
Machine with Abandoned Doll
“The intellect may be strong and the adult tormented as a result of it, but the child within dreams innocently.” —Arthur Ganson
Devious Inc.
I hold certain truths to be self evident. Among these: independent film is good. Locally produced products are good. Rocking musicals are good. Shoes are good. The fetish industry is…
The New York Comic-Con Experience in Three Parts
There is nothing like the thrill of heading off to a convention for rabid fanboys, geeks, cosplayers, and those who simply enjoy letting their inner freak flag fly across 10th…
A Call for Writing Advice
Q: How Do You Crank Up to Write? A: “Discipline.” John Updike did it all the time, Richard Ford did it early in the morning, Nathaniel Hawthorne did it nonstop,…
The Sky Below
A.J. Liebling once remarked that the authors of newspaper obituaries are “a frustrated and usually anonymous tribe.” That’s certainly true of Gabriel Collins, narrator of Stacey D’Erasmo’s unusual new novel,…
The Shorty Q&A with Mary Roach
Mary Roach has written best-selling books about dead bodies, ghosts, and fucking. Her work is accessible and unflinching, presenting a variety of quirky or unsavory topics in a manner distinctive…