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In Kris D’Agostino’s second novel, The Antiques, he returns to familiar forms: A dysfunctional family whose members are in various stages of arrested development; a generational home in upstate New York; and the absurdity of life in its most darkly comedic moments. Here, the three grown (yet hardly mature) children of the Westfall family reunite […]
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Trauma steals meaning and expression. BDSM and writing create them.
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I am scared. I will continue to be scared. I am scared that, one day, I will not be able to run as fast as my dad who eluded rocks and a tire iron.
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There’s a connection between the longings of the characters I develop in my fiction and my urge to dominate.
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A poetic friendship, a good one, is hardly ever something that requires a group.
...moreDavid Staller takes a fresh look at the Brooklyn apartment hunt for The Millions.
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Gentleman randy for high culture interested in encounter at the opera with discreet female. Let us sit in the dark together and partake in a sexy live show. Arias and outcalls only.
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Ali Shapiro doles out some exceedingly practical advice for job-hunting with the qualifications of a creative writer.
...moreEvery Sunday, James the Stanton of Gnartoons posts an episode of Missed Connection Comix at San Francisco blog Uptown Almanac. The strip takes missed connection posts from Craigslist—the guy who fancied a girl at his CPR class, the woman looking for a “Scorpio/Dave” she met at Burning Man—and illustrates them in all their perfect absurdity.
...moreAre you reading Ships that pass yet? “A collection of fake, imagined, and literary missed connections posted to Craigslist and then re-posted here with real and actual responses to fake, imagined, and literary missed connections.” In other words, this is awesome.
...more“Such encounters are becoming increasingly difficult. With a growing number of people turning to Kindles and other electronic readers, and with the Apple iPad arriving on Saturday, it is not always possible to see what others are reading or to project your own literary tastes. “You can’t tell a book by its cover if it […]
...moreWelcome to Saturday night. Hope you like what I’ve dug up for you this week. Okay, this first one isn’t technically poetry, but if you’re interested in Bright Star, Jane Campion’s film about John Keats,
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