THE ROCKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rockville Public Library.
Rumpus Editor Stephen Elliott discussed The Adderall Diaries in an open forum interview that took place in the comments section over at Gawker. The interview was moderated by James Frey.…
50 years of space exploration (I’m sorry if you’ve seen this five times already, but man is it pretty). Yesterday was the 50th birthday of Goma, the first gorilla ever…
Life falling short in the “technical drawings of german zeppelins” department? You’re welcome. Don’t pee on airplanes! Photomicrography. NY Times on kosher elevators and other elements of 21st century Orthodox…
“… Professor Sandel says a “philosophically frank” university should tell those it rejects that “we don’t regard you as less deserving than those who were admitted” and that “it is…
The Sycamore Review paid someone for a poem. It cost them a quarter and the poem was written on a bar napkin. Sounds like a worthwhile trade. Kent Johnson on…
The jokes write themselves sometimes–on the same day that the sitting President of the US wins the Nobel Peace Prize, we bombed the moon. To be fair, we had warned…
So this book isn’t totally obscure, having won the 1997 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, but Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk still deserves a dose of the spotlight. A…
It’s Saturday morning and you know what that means. It means I need a drink. Two gun puns in the title? Come on, y’all. I’m with Sadie here: what kind…
My husband enjoys scuba diving. Prior to meeting my present spouse, I had never entertained the notion of going diving, as it combines three things I generally try to avoid:…