This week in New York, Grantland launches at Bookcourt, Philip Levine and Tracy K. Smith read at Housing Works, everyone (not kidding) pays tribute to Philip Larkin at Cooper Union,…
Let’s talk about drilling lasers in outer space. Today in almost timely political street art: Pinocchio Sarkozy. These 17th century fish sketches are my favorite thing today. Viewing the world…
I thought I’d write an essay for you today but naturally it’s not done because my allergies are clogging the old brain-machine. Besides you all probably want to read subjects…
I saw David Rees read once. The event was about politics; it was to introduce a political book whose title I have regrettably forgotten. (I went to support another friend.)…
The 92nd St Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, an institution of which I have never taken nearly enough advantage, occasionally posts recordings of its old readings. A couple of days ago,…
This week in bad-ass: jetpacking over the Swiss Alps. Context-free patent art is the best thing today. How do you single out friends’ voices in a crowded party? Science is…
The Paris Review shares an interview with Pablo Neruda conducted in 1970 just before the poet withdrew his presidential candidacy. “I have never renounced the expression of loneliness, of anguish,…
Molly Boyle writes about how murder ballads helped in her efforts to find the “sublimity of survival” after an attempted rape. “The stories we tell ourselves happen often to be…
On the regional dialects of certain hyraxes. Everyone needs some undersea photography now and then. “In 1950, an elephant fell out of a monorail in Germany.” Let’s all make some…
Los Angeles centered, quarterly literary journal Slake is on its fourth publication. The “Dirt” themed issue features work from an array of talented writers including Lauren Groff, Luke Davies, Aimee…
“Cappadocia had been cobwebbed by trade routes in those days and was constantly under attack; the underground cities served as fortification from invaders…What made me curious was that the ancient…
What does space sound like? Life goal of the day: visit Deception Island. Computer as swarm of crabs. “Astrologers Predict 1929 Will Be Year of Prosperity.” Here are all the…