“The Tower of Babel,” is an 80-foot tower art installation of 30,000 books created by Argentinean artist Marta Minujín to celebrate Buenos Aires being the 2011 World Book Capital as…
Yoko Ono is gifting YouTube viewers with a free viewing of Bed Peace, a documentary about her and John Lennon’s 1969 Bed-In in Montreal to promote world peace and protest…
Can words become a part of you? I found Tom Raworth’s “South America” published in Keith Tuma’s Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry (Oxford, 2001) and have always looked…
Lovely photos of the Necklace Nebula. Some building blocks of DNA look like they originated in space. If you hear someone claim global warming violates the laws of physics (and…
Brian here, blogging one-handed since ninjas tripped me Thursday and fractured my radial head (which sounds like what would happen if a particularly famous band where to talk about breaking…
Dinty W. Moore, an editor at Brevity and the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction, is interviewed by Matador Notebook on writers. He makes some interesting and useful points about the ever-branching…
If you don’t use these words, they’re gonna go bad. Get super intimate with the moon. Where’d this guy get a million circuit boards? Baby boomers have their own texting…
Do you want someone to come along and spoil that short-story you’re about to begin? Yes you do, says this study. The “Hedonic Ratings of Spoiled & Unspoiled Stories” chart,…
Due to second thoughts about preserving the anonymity of one of Sugar’s advice seekers, Dear Sugar will run a little later than expected. (As Sugar put it on twitter: “Oy.…