Features & Reviews
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THE BLURB #15: The Monster Impulse
The panic that pervades these stories arises because in our real, human world there is too much cause for fear and worry. Who, exactly, is responsible for the deteriorating environment? What, precisely, causes terrorism? Enter the bugbears and scapegoats.
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Voyage Fantastique – An Illustrated Guide to the Body and Mind
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967):
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Wherefore Art Thou @Romeo?
Shakespeare is the classic and timeless example of dramatic excellence, and once again in this modern age it is being put to the test. In a five week real-time performance, ‘ol Bill’s Romeo and Juliet is going to be played…
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #4
Dominic Sclafani, Age 30 Tucson, Arizona “He’s like, ‘She’s going to eat you alive.’ And I go, ‘Yes, I know.’”
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/12-4/18
This week: The Monthly Rumpus rocks the Makeout Room yet again, The Believer presents You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You, San Francisco’s Cinematheque society has a neat film party at the Victoria Theater, and feel better about not…
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Stars of the Night Commute
Stars of the Night Commute is a tremendous first book by a poet who has been publishing for some time now… One distinctive feature of Božičević’s work is that her poems work well together, that is, not only telling stories…
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Ann Gelder: The Last Book I Loved, Beautiful Children
As soon as I started reading Beautiful Children, I disliked it. This reaction was gratifying. I went to graduate school in the late 80s and early 90s, where I learned to approach all literature (except the effusions of a few…
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Riot in Coloring Book no.9
Heinz Kiessling’s illustrations for Malbuchgeschichten by Ilse Firbas (Germany, 1949):
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Notable New York, This Week 4/12 – 4/18
This week in New York The Future of Criticism with Lorin Stein and Maud Newton, John D’Agata and Thalia Field discuss the lyric essay, Alice Walker on activism, Salman Rushdie and Lee Bollinger discuss free speech in a globalized world,…
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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Braindead: An AWP Retrospective
1. Award George Saunders the Nobel Prize in Decency Have you ever met a single reader or writer who does not worship George Saunders? You have not. You have not because George Saunders represents everything writers should be.
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Vonnegut’s Blackboard
“Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard” (remember those?) over at Lapham’s Quarterly. Vonnegut on Cinderella: