“Unifying Theme”
“Grann’s theme is the quest for darkness in its broadest form. Sometimes that quest is literal, as when he follows two men who spend their lives probing the ocean’s depths…
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Morning Coffee
“An outrageous conversation” between Playboy and David Bowie, from 1976. “An Oral History of the Insane Clown Posse Parodies.” “The 100 oldest registered dot-com domain names.” (via brainpicker) The end.
A Book Review with Pie Charts
“Reading these poems makes me want to write and this is a book that I will probably come back to often when I feel stuck or uninspired. The poems in…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/26 – 5/2:
This week, show some skin for Boobquake!, shake your booty at ODC’s free dance classes, and get hotter than Georgia asphalt at the x-rated 20 year anniversary showing of Wild…
If you subscribed to The Daily Rumpus you’d be home by now
Yesterday, editor Stephen Elliott sent out a particularly long Daily Rumpus. Most of these aren’t published online. If you’d like to get them via email you have to subscribe.
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #30
Cops said if I get caught huffing again they’re locking me up, but they didn’t say nothing about painting an unventilated bathroom over and over again. You can either join…
Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud,…
Morning Coffee
To celebrate my second week filling in for Dan Weiss, I present this tote bag. There are drawings in here of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a jazz combo.…
Politics Sunday
Remember the Wikileaks video depicting the killing of twelve people, including two children and a journalist, in Iraq? Well, one of the soldiers responsible has written a formal letter of…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Sorry for the light posting today. Combination of computer issues and personal matters. Here are some poetry links for you. Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month…