On Loving the Art of a Problematic Artist
In early 2010, I came within a hair’s breadth of securing a rare interview with Morrissey myself, but he ultimately backed out. It was disappointing, because I had planned…to ask…
Other
16062 posts
Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
New Fiction Confab on 4/13
Texas readers, this year’s New Fiction Confab in Austin looks completely irresistible. There will be talks with writers like Sam Lipsyte, Susan Steinberg, and Rumpus Book Club author Manuel Gonzales; creative-writing…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is a good day to think about lost explorers. Every day is a good day for Chinese propaganda of the 1950s. Sup new kind of supernova? THE FUTURE! Now…
No More Room for “Whom”
Via The Millions, an Atlantic blog post on the death of “America’s least favorite pronoun”: the dreaded “whom.” It always feels like society is crumbling when big linguistic changes occur,…
Sinful Bookmarks and Western Prejudice
What is it like, in post-Tahrir Cairo, to run a bookstore or a publishing house? What is it like to be a reader or a writer? For Poets & Writers, Stephen…
FUNNY WOMEN #98: Classic Novels Rejected by Modern Publishing Houses
How about adding a scene where Elizabeth Bennet accidentally places the winning bid on Mr. Darcy during a charity bachelor auction?
Faulkner Goes Postal
Take a look at William Faulkner’s resignation from his postmaster job, which appears at Letters of Note: As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have…
Happy Baby Shoutout!
A big thank you to Maud Newton for shouting out the Happy Baby movie in the New York Times Magazine. Fun fact from her blurb: “[Stephen] Elliott accidentally sent the chapters out of…
The Riveter: Read and Submit!
Joining PDXX Collective and Vela, there’s another new online magazine offering “riveting storytelling by women.” It’s cleverly called The Riveter. Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz, a.k.a. “The Rosies,” created The Riveter to…
“Stories We Tell Ourselves,” by Michelle Herman
Do your dreams stay with you? How about the one about your dead Aunt Ethel, or that one where you’re pushed off a skyscraper by laughing midget rodeo clowns? What…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Politics I can get behind: It is imperative that we keep spending money studying duck penises. Dept. of about-dang-time: the invisible bike helmet. Books prove that none of feel anything…
L.A. Women
“There’s a creative renaissance currently flourishing in Los Angeles and these women are central figures.” This week, KCET’s L.A. Letters explores iconic women in literary L.A. The writers and musicians…