Blogs
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Drawn Out Stories: Comic Book Art and Artists
This Sunday, October 7th, the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum will be hosting Drawn Out Stories: Comic Book Art and Artists, an event that features Rumpus comics editor Paul Madonna, along with contributors MariNaomi and Chelsea Martin: “Whether used as a…
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“The Fact of the Matter” by Sally Keith
In The Fact of the Matter, moments are artifacts to be labeled and sorted. The poems are not an attempt to make sense – of time, of history, and of the self and the self in and out of love…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Sleeping Lioness” by Larry Levis
As a fiction writer, and as a reader, I gravitate toward stories from the perspective of a specific, imperfect and alert, outward-and-inward-looking consciousness, a transparent eyeball with legs and, at least occasionally, uncomfortable shoes. The danger of a story centered…
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A Matter of Dignity
Certain constituencies are always shoved aside, always told their issues will be addressed at some nebulous point in the future. During a lengthy debate, to see these issues merit neither discussion nor debate speaks to how little dignity is valued…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Portland!
Portland Goes Wild for Mathew Dickman and the Objectivist Tradition Now: I can’t tell you whether or not two days ago I was in a brief e-mail back and forth with Matthew Dickman. I can’t tell you whether or not…
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“The Crossed Out Swastika” by Cyrus Cassells
Cyrus Cassells’ fifth collection of poems, The Crossed-Out Swastika, treads the familiar yet treacherous and muddy ground of World War II. For a less skilful poet, such hostile territory may have presented an insurmountable challenge. For Cassells’, however, the atrocities…
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FUNNY WOMEN #87: Delusions of Grandeur
I told him that I was a novelist and modeled in between books to support the online charity I’d founded to send unwanted makeup to women abroad.
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David Foster Wallace Was A Comedy Nerd
Blythe Robertson unpacks David Foster Wallace’s thoughts, and impacts, on American comedy for Splitsider. Wallace often worried about the overwhelming amount of irony on television – talking heads poking fun at those watching the show while viewers laugh along at…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: First Monday in October
Bob Hicok Says Believe Me: Over at The Believer, Bob Hicok fields a few questions (excerpts only at this point per interviewer Matthew Sherling) about his writing process. Hicok’s takes on on his own process reveal a darling and darting…
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Sinclair Lewis’ Rejection Letter
Letters of Note posts Sinclair Lewis’ rejection of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. Lewis argues that honors such as the Pulitzer serve the committees who award them rather than receivers of the award; these committees become the enforcers…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Samuel L. Jackson wants you to Wake the Fuck Up. It’s almost time for The Great Write-Off. And not to late to sponsor someone… Are you on your way to WeHo? I wish I were. Here’s where one of my…
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Yarn-Bombing
A “mystery knitter” has taken to the streets in Edinburgh, protesting the city’s tram system. The form of protest is being called “yarn-bombing,” which involves crafty individuals knitting signs of protest, rather than the traditional picket signs or graffiti. Not…