Playing Telephone with Poetry
It was inevitable, in our day and age, we guess, that the world of classical translation would look over at the world of the colloquial, bite-sized, social network-friendly format and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fun fact: robots did not help fight the Russian Revolution. They are however infiltrating the Chinese workforce. I am a proud endorser of any and all swing based art. A…
A Strange Object Is Born
Callie Collins and Jill Meyers, formerly of American Short Fiction, are starting a new project together: “A Strange Object is an independent press based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to publishing…
It’s the thought that counts
We recently got some love from The Well-Read Wife! Mandy includes a membership to our book club on her list of 10 Things To Buy A Book Lover. Thanks, Mandy! Finally,…
Queens Library Undaunted by Hurricane Sandy
What do you do when a devastating hurricane prevents your community from going to the library? You bring the library to the people with “a mobile book bus” and “a…
In the cage, the Music soothes
Funding for the arts is hard to come by these days. Ever wonder what it’s like for the folks in prison, and those who work with prisoners, who can see…
Behind the Scenes of the Silver Screen
Anne Helen Petersen’s Scandals of Classic Hollywood column is consistently one of the best features at The Hairpin, even for those among us who have never heard of any of…
The Blue Velvet Project Goes to Argentina
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes’s The Blue Velvet Project analyzes in marvelous depth 152 still frames from David Lynch’s classic arthouse film. The series, which originally appeared at Filmmaker magazine’s site,…
The Sensible Nonsense Project
What was your favorite book as a child? The Phantom Tollbooth? Little House on the Prairie? Something by Roald Dahl that was kind of grotesque and frightening but also a…
Post-Sandy Fundraisers, and My Money is with Occupy Sandy
With the Petraeus sex scandal hijacking everyone’s attention away from anything else resembling news – and I am so guilty of gawking incessantly at this juicy side show; I’ll admit…
Remembering Lives Lost in the Storm
The media has taken a severe disinterest in assembling the names of the lives lost to Sandy. At her blog and at New York Magazine, Whitney Hess has cultivated an…
When the Wall Between Church and State Fell
The Daily Beast has a fascinating post about a mostly forgotten moment in American history: the time General Ulysses S. Grant “wrote out an order banishing all Jews throughout his…