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Juicy Poetry and Film Theory for Your Friday

HTMLGIANT features Carrie Lorig’s breathtaking review of Raul Zurita’s Dreams for Kurosawa, a book of poems provoked jointly by the film Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (take that literally; Kurosawa directed a haunting film…

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Amazon bans Authors from posting book Reviews

If you’re an author on Amazon, your days of posting book reviews may have come to an end. Amazon’s new book review policy classifies Amazon authors as competitors, and competitors…

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The Good Old Days

Before social media, people spread ideas with postcards. Collectors Weekly features an article of the double-edged sword variety. Lisa Hicks provides a selection of Suffrage-era postcards (both pro and against),…

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Prop 34: The fate of the Death Penalty

The United States is one of only four industrialized democracies that still practice capital punishment. This upcoming election, Prop 34 will determine the fate of the death penalty in California. Alexandra…

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A Sound Bite to Savor

Who doesn’t love awesomely funny and quirky writers who slyly and inevitably ravage us with their insights into the sometimes devastating complexities of life and interaction with our fellow human…

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Fallen Trees, Broken Windows and Beer Bottles

We’ve got a treat for those of you who followed Sandy’s destructive path and what has been left in her wake. How about a nice essay about how New Yorkers…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Evolution watch 2012: this elephant appears to be speaking Korean. Who doesn’t love old skeletal drawings? Behold the earliest known super nova! Behold the painfree bandaid! Now let’s take a…

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“Boy, A History”

“In line in the cafeteria, at his favorite table in the library, on the last block before the block he lives on, the inside of Boy’s head is one blank…

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Help A Bookstore Out

The good news, as The Atlantic Wire reported yesterday, is many bookstores in Manhattan and Brooklyn managed to weather the storm, and should be—if they aren’t already—doing business as usual within the…

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Chinese Literature Making International Strides

This month, Mo Yan is the first Chinese citizen to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, and the first non-European to win in the last decade. At the…

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Sandy Roundup

Mother Jones is a good place for ongoing updates. Yesterday, their Climate Desk spoke with elderly NYC residents trapped without power. Our own Michelle Dean writes about “FEMA, Inequality and the Need…

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All-Story and The Conversation

Zoetrope’s fiction quarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story is offering slices of cinematic history to lucky subscribers. Subscribe to the magazine before November 15th and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win…

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