The City in Words
“They say fiction requires conflict; well, when New York was a war of all against all, you had all the conflict you could handle any time you put your feet…
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Avoiding Amazon in 2012
“Many people assume that if you want e-books, you’ve got to buy them from Amazon or another online retailer. They’re wrong about that. You most certainly can purchase e-books from…
Kim Hyesoon Interview
Guernica has an extensive interview with South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, who elaborates on life as a woman poet and the state of feminism in Korea. Hyesoon discusses the role…
“Before He Opened His Mouth”
“Somehow you wind up on the topic of his wife’s vagina.” So begins Rumpus columnist Sari Botton’s story, “Before He Opened His Mouth,” which was published yesterday at This Recording.
What’s Your Favorite Poem and Why?
“That was the question Nicola Behrman asked her pals on the eve of Thanksgiving 2010. Then, on a whim, she asked them to write it out by hand and pop…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Japanese understand the key to depression is baby robots (robot babies). Peter Newell’s The Rocket Book is your early 20th Century kids book of the day. By the way,…
Fractured Systems
The Nation explores the poetry of Juliana Spahr, Noah Eli Gordon, Anna Moschovakis and Kathleen Ossip, articulating how all four poets react to “big modern systems,” while rendering compounded emotions.…
FUNNY WOMEN #72: People We Want to Be and the People We Are
When I tend to think about myself, I tend to think that I am okay. My hair is fairly soft, and I have very tiny hands. I don’t necessarily imagine…
The Lives They Loved
Last month, The New York Times Magazine asked readers to share photographs of loved ones who passed away in 2011. The result is “The Lives They Loved,” an interactive feature…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The year in animals killing each other. I promise this is (possibly) the last year-in-review link. Let’s take a moment to discuss the most kissed face in the world. The…
Winter Grotto Classes
If you’re in the Bay Area, you should check out this list of upcoming writing classes and workshops at The Grotto. Winter classes begin January 17, and all students enrolled…
No Comment
At the Believer, Meghan Daum dissects the “commenting culture” of the Internet and the rampant “haterade” in our public discourse. “A young person (any person) who published a piece as…