Columns
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Anne Emond and Josh Bayer
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9pm EST in New York City.
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Diamonds and Rust: Summer Music Fests, Small Luxuries, and the Open Road
Those rare flashes of vivid scenes burned in my memory, which create the mythos for my five-day adventure journeying to Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2013.
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The Bullies of Goodreads
“When you’re an author, you expect that you’re going to get bad reviews. You expect that you may even get extremely bad, unfair reviews. But there is a segment of Goodreads that has gotten completely, utterly out of hand.” Author…
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PBS NewsHour’s Poetry Series: Where Poetry Lives
I just finished watching the first segment of PBS NewsHour’s poetry series featuring US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey that aired last night. The segment focused on how poetry and language have enhanced the quality of life for dementia patients and…
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Feeling Unlucky?
If you’re feeling unlucky, think about Winston from 1984 or Grandmother from A Good Man is Hard to Find. How about Gregor from The Metamorphosis? These characters didn’t necessarily have an unfortunate Friday the 13th but we can all agree, they certainly had…
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Bad Machine by George Szirtes
Erik Kennedy reviews George Szirtes’s Bad Machine today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Power of Borrowing Books
The public library system becomes the site of a resistance struggle between citizens and the mayor in Eric Lundgren’s debut novel The Facades. In his analysis published in The New Yorker, Jon Michaud discusses the importance of Lundgren’s work in…
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HORN! REVIEWS: In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey guess what, we finally made it into interstellar space. This is what it sounds like. Important news: typewriters are pretty. Atlas Obscura has your ruin porn for the day. Perhaps you’d like to see some mid-century science exhibition postcards.
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Love Love Love
“You could have the baby,” he said. “Best case scenario, it would absolutely destroy my relationship, like completely burn it to the ground, and then we would get together. It would be hard, but I would do it.”
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Remembering David Foster Wallace
Five years ago today, groundbreaking writer David Foster Wallace took his own life. Maria Popova at Brain Pickings remembers him with a post excerpting Conversations with David Foster Wallace, a “collection of 22 interviews and profiles of the beloved author.” A…
