Nicotine Chic: Writers as Smokers
Colette, Sartre & de Beauvoir (facsimiles), Mayakovsky “Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature.…
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The Napoleon of Not a Clue
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the most incoherent book title of 1907:
The Monk and the Ghost
Three pages from Josef Váchal‘s Mnicha strasidlo (The Monk and the Ghost), a 1919 “flip book.”
An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #5
Fred White, Age 86 Mission, Kansas “She was quite a doll and I didn’t want anybody else.” My wife, Helen, and I have been married sixty-five years. I met her…
you are a little bit happier than i am
Reading these poems makes me want to write and this is a book that I will probably come back to often when I feel stuck or uninspired. The poems in…
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
What we’re witnessing in Arizona, and all across this country, is an ongoing moral tragedy.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/26 – 5/2:
This week, show some skin for Boobquake!, shake your booty at ODC’s free dance classes, and get hotter than Georgia asphalt at the x-rated 20 year anniversary showing of Wild…
The Last Book I Loved: Wuthering Heights
What is wrong with Emily Brontë? I want to make a house in her brain. I'm scared! I can't tell you too much, because my sister is reading the book now and I don't want to spoil anything.
Lapham’s Bows to the Great Goddess
“Arts & Letters,” the Spring issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, is perhaps the magazine’s most unabashed celebration of nostalgia yet, which is saying a lot for a publication that indulges as…
Poetic License
About a month ago, I saw a story about a project being put together by a brand new production company. The project was called “Poetic License 100 Poems 100 Performers”…
Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud,…
“The Stories Never Die”
“Liberty’s material is so relevant today it makes me feel, at age 84, that I am at the beginning,” says Robert Whiteman, who has devoted the last several years of…