Posts by author
Maria Chiang
-
Tomas Transtromer Roundup
“‘Waking up is a parachute jump from dreams. Free of the suffocating turbulence the traveler sinks toward the green zone of morning,’ the poem reads. ‘Things flare up. From the viewpoint of the quivering lark he is aware of the…
-
Poverty and Sesame Street
“The brilliant team at the Sesame Workshop is using Lily to explain a very complex and heartbreaking problem to young children while showing ways they can help like volunteering for food pantries and donating food to those who may be…
-
Playing with Genre
“There’s a line by William Carlos Williams I mentioned in a speech: ‘The pure products of America go crazy.’ If you go for that kind of purity, you’re going to box yourself in a very small room. We are in…
-
More #OccupyWallStreet
Mother Jones has created an interactive map for the Occupy Wall Street protests. Also, the movement makes Noam Chomsky hopeful for democracy in the U.S. and has academic and activist supporters in China.
-
Sendak Unbarred
“‘I refuse to lie to children,’ says Sendak. ‘I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.’” Maurice Sendak does not withhold his feelings in this recent interview with The Guardian. He released his latest book, Bumble-Ardy, earlier this year.
-
A. N. Devers and Bombal
“It is unclear to me whether the Chilean writer Mariá Luisa Bombal shot her lover, Eulogio Sanchez, or her husband, Eulogio Sanchez—the few biographical sources available to me are contradictory—but I do know that she shot him.” Tin House‘s Lost…
-
October Taste of The Believer
The Believer is out now and some of this month’s fantastic, wide-ranging collection of literary articles are posted in their entirety online (including an online exclusive interview with artist David Shrigley). Among them, Jonathan Lethem defines and redefines in his…
-
Bagging The Final Beat
Undie Press has posted the last online installment of “Bagging the Beats at Midnight: Confessions of an Indie Bookstore Clerk. Author of the series and St Mark’s Bookshop employee, Karen Lillis, “was recently approached by an outstanding indie publisher who…
-
No More Mademoiselle
“In France, when you fill out a form — whether it’s a job application or a parking citation — if you’re a woman, you have to choose between madame and mademoiselle. Too bad if you feel your marital status is…
-
Defining Science and God
With illustrations from our own Ian Hubert, Salon questions how God and science can coexist.
-
Two From Nick Rombes
“TWO THUMBS DOWN! the headline screams in victory. ‘Two more great reasons to see… Lost Highway.‘” Rumpus contributor Nick Rombes has a mini-review of an advertisement for David Lynch’s film Lost Highway out in the latest issue of The Believer.…