Strand Bookstore Labor Battle
Manhattan’s Strand Bookstore is in the midst of a labor struggle. Employees have launched a blog, which contains their original press release: “Strand ownership mounts unprecedented attack on union.” MetroFocus…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Eli Horowitz Interview
UR Chicago interviews McSweeney’s editor Eli Horowitz in anticipation of his appearance at Columbia’s Story Week. Horowitz offers thoughts on publication, his book The Clock Without a Face, Adam Levin…
“Diva Boy”
At The Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn writes about her relationship with her older brother. “By then Ken’s life was no secret. He’d already fought all his battles. His…
Trayvon Martin
“How did a kid armed with Skittles and an iced tea get gunned down by an overeager neighborhood watch captain? And why didn’t police detain shooter George Zimmerman?” Mother Jones reports.…
Dardenne Brothers Interview
Interview Magazine features Belgian filmmaking brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The conversation revolves around their latest film, The Kid with a Bike. “I don’t think we ever make movies that…
Wild is released!
Today’s the day. Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild is out! You can celebrate by purchasing the book here. Also, check out Strayed’s recent interviews with NPR’s Weekend Edition, Interview Magazine, and…
Fire and Drag
In Padua, Minnesota, firefighters put out a truck fire that broke out before a St. Patrick’s Day parade. And they did it all while dressed in drag. Witness their flame-destroying,…
Cheryl Strayed’s Days of Yore
“When I feel afraid, that’s an indication that I’ve tapped into something worth writing about. Whenever my writing has made me cry or ask, ‘Can I really say that?’ that…
Charged Sentences
“It is by fussing with sentences that a character becomes clear to me, that a plot unfolds. To work on them so compulsively, perhaps prematurely, is to see the trees…
A Place for Literary Videos
In response to YouTube’s lack of a literature category, Reddit has created its own “underground” site for literary videos. “Poetry videos, short story videos, live readings, spoken work performance, audiobook…
Toward a New Discovery of Poverty
Barbara Ehrenreich looks back at Michael Harrington’s The Other America, and how the concept of a ‘culture of poverty,’ which became entwined with conservative ideology, has failed to address the…
Cross-Media Cutural Exchange
In Largehearted Boy’s “Cross-Media Cultural Exchange Program” series, author Emma Rathbone interviews musician Adam Brock. The two discuss gracing a podium as an author versus taking the stage as a…