Modern Day Serfs
The US student loan burden surpasses the trillion dollar mark, ushering in the potential for another loan bubble crisis like that of 2008 and subprime mortgages. Natalia Antonova recounts her…
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How To Get Into the Twin Palms Giveaway!
In honor of our recent interview with Karolina Waclawiak and review of her new novel, How To Get Into the Twin Palms, we are announcing a giveaway! The first ten…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Rio Olympics are already looking pretty awesome, architecture-wise. The best mobile home design 1985 has to offer. Le Globe Celeste. Someday I hope to live in the space colonies…
“Songs in the Key of Death”
At The Morning News, Nicole Pasulka writes about new-age musician David Young, who markets his music to the funeral industry and fills the silence for the modern mourner. “Young is…
Peripherally Olympic
Full of history and intrigue, here’s some suggested peripheral reading to accompany the beloved games: Over at The New Inquiry, native Londoner Laurie Penny agrees to ride the Underground for a…
The Roof Over Your Head
Reporter Julia Scott spent time with three people who ended up living on the streets of San Francisco after losing their homes. Scott brings their stories to this episode of…
Look Closer
Yesterday marked the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Landsat, America’s longest running Earth-imaging satellite program. Since the NASA-run program began in 1972, Landsat has captured more than three million…
A Virtual Tour Of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Attention All David Foster Wallace Fans, Writer William Beutler is compiling real life Boston, MA locations featured in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: “About each I will write some 300–500 words,…
“I’ve had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies . . .”
” . . . Once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once by my…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yes, we know the Olympics are going on. Here are some pictures of divers faces. There is so much garbage on the moon you guys. Also there were 48 tons…
More Letter Love
NBC’s TODAY reports on Letters in the Mail, illustrating the story with a page from MariNaomi’s letter. Thanks, TODAY!
Olympic Poetics
“It’s easy to say poets are attracted to sport for reasons that have something to do with form. I’m sure that’s true, but I also think that it has something…