Calling all those who live in/near Chicago! Comics editor, Paul Madonna is in town talking about and signing his new book, Everything is its own Reward. The book is chock-full…
Next month’s Rumpus Book Club selection will indeed satisfy your summer fiction cravings. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is Christopher Bouchet’s debut novel, published by Melville House Publishing. The…
Should doctors be prescribing languages instead of pharmaceuticals? The Nation‘s Ange Mlinko ponders the potentially transformative relationship between a second language and the self.
It turns out those trusty Law and Order-like forensic techniques are now being adopted for another function–the preservation of social norms via the avoidance of seemingly invasive questions! Next time…
For those of you who are feeling the lack of sweet counseling normally provided on Thursdays afternoons, please hold off one more day! Dear Sugar #77 will be coming your…
When you’re playing host for your literary idol, there is a lot of opportunity for panic and embarrassment. Wendy MacLeod recounts Jonathan Franzen’s visit to Kenyon, recalling her anticipatory anxieties,…
I hope you guys are ready for hella space garbage next week. 100 plus years of Olympic posters (are neat). In the future we will all drive around in electric…
Feministing, the esteemed online feminist community, highlighted our very own Elissa Bassist’s interview with sex-positive feminist Susie Bright (which is still very smart and very funny, if you haven’t dabbled…
Explore the many different ways of reading and understanding the writings of Philip K. Dick, particularly the unsettling yet enticing allure of his “unquotable prose”.
Anybody who appreciates the community value of their local independent bookstore knows about the monetary pressure imposed by Amazon and internet-based competitors. So if you really appreciate the value of…
Let’s collectively remember John Ross, a “relentless political and literary experimenter” with revolutionary tendencies. Best known for his book Murdered by Capitalism and his coverage of the Zapatistas movement in…