Kids Kill Art or Art Kills Kids
With a unique family led by performance artist parents, Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang warns of the dangers of conflating art and life.
Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Interview with Marissa Nadler
Since 2004, Boston-based singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler has released a steady output of thoughtful, acutely written folk songs highlighted by her dreamy vocals and distinct guitar stylings.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #97
SCRATCH AND SNIFF ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Scratch and Sniff.
All Over Coffee #545 Collaboration with Isaac Fitzgerald
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Isaac Fitzgerald. Click here to view. …more
The Cows in The Cows
Lydia Davis’s new chapbook The Cows documents the lives of her neighbor’s cows.
WHERE I WRITE #16: In Storms
With the exception of the four years I spent at a small college on the east coast, I’ve lived in Chicago all my life. Anyone who grew up in the…
All Over Coffee #545
Collaboration with Isaac Fitzgerald
Click image to enlarge: Written by Isaac Fitzgerald. For more information on collaborative All Over Coffee strips, go to allovercoffee.com. … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook…
The New York Poetry Festival
It’s impossible to discuss last weekend’s first ever “free celebration of the poetry world of New York City” without mentioning the fact that it wasn’t in New York City.
More Horses Than We Need
Perspective and introspection are plentiful in this fine retrospective collection, but Gallagher doesn’t fully see now. She speculates profoundly and eloquently, metaphysically — never astro/quantum physically, as if from any…
Albums of Our Lives: Willie Nelson’s Shotgun Willie
I refused to listen to the B-side. This was, I guess, an extension or reflection of the poverty of those years after leaving my marriage and buying the 10 Willie…