Don’t tell anyone, but today is the last day of the year. Other rad things you can make out of books. Can farming save Detroit? Sema Bekirovic takes some pretty…
It happens in all our lives. We put down our golf clubs to peruse the mail that the butler has brought on a silver tray, when we discover an invitation…
Ann Friedman is one of the editors of my favorite feminist blog, feministing, where she writes the Weekly Feminist Reader (“I know what I’m looking forward to doing this holiday season?…
Yesterday Will Schofield, editor of the oh-so-awesome A Journey Round My Skull, posted some amazing pictures from Estonian children’s books. Well Will has found an animated version of one of…
In celebration of the January release of IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s latest album, which was produced by Beck, Gainsbourg will be performing two shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn (1/19,…
It is getting increasingly hard to fill this section with anything but year-end retrospectives, but I like this graph quite a bit. Hubble’s best images of 2009 (see above). The…
Warhol’s sport star polaroids. Who doesn’t love a sweaty bat? Contemporary artists design New York taxi signs. Yep. Seed Magazine, going through their best articles of the year, brings you…
The Rumpus proudly presents: Welcome Back January 11 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Michelle Tea, D. A. Powell, Elissa Bassist,…
This week in New York The Poetry Project holds its 36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading, Ludacris and Sandra Bernhard perform, 92Y hosts a New Year’s Hustle Bash,…
Welcome Back. Check out this sweet door. NY Times brings you the most commonly stolen books. In utero animals, kinda gross, kinda adorable! New Scientist looks back at a year…