Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I imagine you’d like to read Margaret Atwood’s thoughts on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. Slate loves space colony art too! Yes, but do they love Eastern European space…
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When Publishers Had A Sense of Humor
There was once a time when we thought of the book industry as less under siege. In that time, people were more prone to pulling the legs of the powers…
“Don’t Do It For Money”?
This week an article about the 1962-63 newspaper strike was everywhere. The Vanity Fair piece is very good, pointing out that the strike opened up career possibilities for many of…
A reading list to swoon over
As we mentioned earlier this week, The Millions has unleashed their A Year In Reading series, providing you the perfect road map for your continuing literary journey! If that wasn’t…
Happy Baby in Los Angeles (Tonight!)
A Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus! December 7th, at Fix Coffee, 2100 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Doors at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. To…
A Different Breed of Family Portraits
Check out Slate’s new photo blog Behold and its showcasing photographer, Leon Borensztein, who has a humorous and unsettling portfolio of portraits. Originally from Poland, Borensztein’s portraits are a sarcastic take…
A Literary Map of the US
At More Intelligent Life, have a look at Geoff Sawer’s Literary Map of the United States, in which he has crammed more than 200 authors, poets and cartoonists into an…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s true! Rich people will be able to walk on the moon pretty soon. It is important sometimes to celebrate the awful parts of London. Behold the snowflake! Children’s games…
Little House in the Big Woods
If figurines were awarded for completing twentysomething life-experience clichés, I have been angling for the entire set: the search for myself in central European beer halls; the move west to…
Thriller Education
At Words Without Borders, B.J. Epstein expounds upon the culture of crime novels, its covert international influence and the diversity of fear. She also continues the necessary conversation of why…
Anticipatory Plagiarism
“Ultimately, as a reader and a writer, I find hope in resistance, in the very act of writing against this culture–even when it is without ‘the old excitement of creation’…”…
Three Cheers for Lit Mags!
And three cheers for LaTanya McQueen’s paean to them on The Missouri Review‘s blog. Her description of losing hours in bookstores among copies of Tin House and Conjunction will no doubt ring true…