Dispatch from the Carnival #1: The Trick is There is No Trick
We start by lighting parts of ourselves on fire that are easier to put out than our faces. Hands, to begin.
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Nick Cave Monday #45: “Do You Love Me?”
Falling in love is a putrid, vile mind space filled with demons. It’s also an angel glowing in white light luring you into her. Let’s explore love, Bad Seeder style.…
Lit-Link Round-up
12 Amazing Staircases around the world. LitReactor is rocking it on craft essays. Their most recent newsletter groups together 10 of the best. Steve Almond’s open letter to his daughter, about…
Links I Like
I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about the Zimmerman verdict. I recommend Roxane Gay’s How America Profiled Trayvon Martin and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Karen Bender’s What Great Writing Can…
O Holy Insurgency by Mary Biddinger
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Mary Biddinger's O Holy Insurgency today in Rumpus Poetry.
Notable Los Angeles: 7/20-7/26
Saturday 7/20: Robert Rotstein will be signing copies of Corrupt Practices (A Parker Stern Novel). 12 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. Unkindest Cut reading series with readers Justin Becker, Kate Coltun…
The Flood by Molly Brodak
Sally Rosen Kindred reviews Molly Brodak's The Flood today in Rumpus Poetry.
Search For a Velvet-Lined Cape by Marjorie Manwaring
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Marjorie Manwaring's Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape today in Rumpus Poetry.
Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, Part 2
You can read Part 1 here. Speaking of clothes, one standout opportunity for the heralded “blockage” or disruption of capital that seems to have been missed occurred at the site…
FUNNY WOMEN #104: Providing Birth Control to American Girl Dolls
At American Girl®, our celebration of girls doesn’t end at puberty--and now neither does our product line!
Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, Part 1
We can’t see the forest for the trees. Think high school cliques. Think think tanks that figure “us” out for us. In their equations, you’re either obedient, an adherent, or…
Nick Cave Monday #44: “These Boots are Made for Walkin'”
Punk rock had exploded in New York City and the U.K., but kids in the Southern Hemisphere probably had to pay a lot of money to buy imports or have…