Erik Gleibermann is a San Francisco social justice journalist, literary critic, memoirist and poet. He is a contributing editor for World Literature Todayand teaches writing in the Stanford University Continuing Studies program. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Florida Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and other literary magazines. He recently completed Jewfro American: An Interracial Memoir. Follow him on Twitter @erikgleibermann and read more of his writings at erikgleibermann.com/writings
This is awesome: Christophe Gowans, a graphic designer from London, wondered what it would be like if some of his favorite albums were actual books. He designed book covers and…
This week in New York The Franklin Park Reading Series; Poets Mark Doty, Kathleen Graber, and Patricia Smith at Housing Works; Sex Worker Literati at Bowery Poetry Club; Neil Gaiman…
Jen Phillips at Mother Jones decided to pen a limerick to express her outrage over the uterine fiasco with the Florida GOP, in which Democratic Representative Scott Randolph was reprimanded…
If you liked Little Women as a kid: “Family may be the most important thing to you, but that wouldn’t stop you from stealing your sister’s ex boyfriend.” —Flavorwire’s write-up…
This week in New York a book party for Jim Shepard (with beer); a reading from the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature winner and finalists; actors perform…
“Reading articles 100 years after they were published means that the topics are often surprisingly relevant. For example, when today’s media was talking about the 2010 census, I posted a…
Houston Judge John Clinton thought it would be a good idea to replace community service with book reports. Nine defendants were sentenced to reading a book of the judge’s choice and reporting back to…
This week in New York Jennifer Egan at Book Court; Pitchapalooza; The Inspired Word featuring poets Samantha Thornhill and Veronica Golos, along with guitarist Valerie June; The New School Arts…
“Writing for an audience is about narration and structure and voice; it’s about the situation and the story. It’s not about how good or bad things are in your own…
“For Bill—You douche bag, you think you can emotionally manipulate me, a very nice person, into insulting you, by appealing to my niceness? Fuck you, Bill. You were right. Fuck…
This week in New York RC Weslowski and a book party for Marie-Elizabeth Mali at louderArts, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Marcus at The Center for Fiction, Dan Savage and…
Instead of writing poetry or posts for The Rumpus, I was checking Facebook, e-mail, some message boards I belong to, and then refreshing Facebook again, and again. Perhaps if I…