Maybe we should turn NYC’s big box stores into a giant mountain. (Yeah! Maybe!) This fireplace is very old. We are getting closer and closer to understanding dark energy. 33…
Let’s take a moment to talk about ARCTIC MADNESS. Look, I know I’m not supposed to link to pop culture things, but I think it’s pretty cool that Neil deGrasse…
Happy National Poetry Month! Monday 4/2: Poet, critic, and editor of the recently released Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry Pireeni Sundaralingam hosts Passion for Poetry! Poetry share at…
The always-provocative Lidia Yuknavitch kicks off a series from the contributors to Other Voices Books’ Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience over at Meredith Resnick’s The Writer’s…
I spent my 20s dilly-dallying, not-publishing, so sure of rejection by MFA programs that I never applied. So I am always happy to find new examples of people who did not…
One of the more curious themes of the coverage of Adrienne Rich’s death this week is that people seem to want to rescue her from her political beliefs. David Orr’s…
Guernica has an extensive interview with Nick Flynn, who reflects on the process of translating Another Bullshit Night in Suck City into film, fathers, and the final book in his…
If you missed Monday’s WILD Night with Sugar and The Rumpus, check out Electric Literature’s write-up and photos of the festivities. “As the band Widowspeak began playing and the reading…
I don’t think you understand how crazy solar tornadoes are. The rise and fall of the expressionist woodcut. Yes. Here are 47 possible names for the 7 dwarfs. I guess…
“Somewhere between the inaccurate and distorted media images of the black male super predator and the black male superhero, live the majority of black men.” The Maynard Institute for Journalism…
Lucy was not alone in the age of early hominids. (Ricky? Charlie Brown? Jude? Your choice.) Update from last week: ants aren’t always gross! Let’s make puppets (featuring The Imp…