Notable New York, This Week 2/8 – 2/14
This week in New York, Harper’s presents “Love: A Rebuke” with Colson Whitehead, Heidi Julavits and Sam Lipsyte, Simon Critchley in bed with Cabinet’s Brian Dillon chatting about hypochondria, Vol.…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Morning Coffee
Clothing for the discerning clergyman. Sometimes people are really into typefaces but also have too much free time; those people do things like this. Hella sweet pictures of astronauts and…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I’m always interested in the different ways poets are exploring to get poems out to the reading public. Cellpoems calls itself “a txt-msg poetry journal,” though thankfully none of the…
A Brief Bob Barker-ish Rant
My partner Amy and I are cat people. Until last summer, we had two–we adopted a third and a fourth attached herself to us a couple of months after we…
Science Saturday
A team of scientists says they’ve mapped the color scheme of the oldest discovered feathered dinosaur. Gene patents are under attack in federal court. Good. Shackleton’s whiskey is being recovered…
Saturday Morning Links
I would totally buy this. If it were real. And assuming I needed a chain saw. Twitpics are no big deal. Twitpics from space, though… I’m sure I’m not the…
Morning Coffee
I assure you our heart is in the right place. We aren’t sure if we love this or hate this, but damn it all it’s Friday and we are linking…
Are Printed Literary Journals Imperiled?
“For me, if there’s a piece of writing that I care about, I want to have the physical object,” says Brigid Hughes, editor of the literary journal A Public Space.…
Morning Coffee
NY Times on how your brain physically manifests abstract ideas and the Tanzanian Spray Toad. The Hubble has detected an alien spacecraft (or just a comet or something, whatever). The…
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Today we have a Rumpus Original Combo with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, which includes an interview as well as a Rumpus Original Poem: “Every Person in This Town Loves Football” Even the…