Wendell Potter–Healthcare’s Jeffrey Wigand
Jeffrey Wigand, in case you don’t remember, is the Brown & Williamson chemist who accused his company of intentionally manipulating the tobacco blend to increase the amount of nicotine in…
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Brian Spears
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Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.
Want to kill e-publishing?
I read stories like this one, where Amazon has gone onto their subscribers’ Kindles and removed books (refunding the purchase price, but still) because the publisher decided they didn’t want…
Saturday Morning Links
Bunker Hill Community College will offer some classes that start at 11:45 p.m. this fall, in an attempt to serve people who have to work late or be up early…
Analysis Taken Too Far
I have to admit, reading an application of literary theory to something like a pop song gives me the giggles. Yeah, I’m a dork–this is a shock? So when I…
Shia Leboeuf is the Mystic?
Did enemy of all that is good in film Michael Bay luck into a story that illustrates basic Hindu thought? The folk at Overthinking It make an interesting case for…
Saturday Morning Links
This site was funnier when I thought it was a collection of email conversations from different people instead of some jerk just screwing with people who put up ads online.…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
MIke Chasar delves into a different side of pin-up poetry. Ron Silliman on the passing of David Bromige. Dale Smith has a few words to say on the latest salvo…
“If it’s not online, it’s invisible”
The Oxford University Press is in favor of the Google book settlement, and the title of this post sums it up pretty well. But I’ll give you a bit more…
Come On and Take a Free Ride
Anyone who even remotely follows the debate over old media versus new has heard the refrain by now–bloggers and aggregators are parasites who are killing their hosts. But it turns…
Charcoal versus Gas
Grilling is such a big deal that Mike Judge built an animated series around the charcoal versus propane debate twelve years ago and the show is still going strong. I…