1. Best stick-in-your-head line from an ’09 fiction: “The sky was a fucked puzzle,” from Blake Butler’s EVER. 2. Best…
Dan Wickett’s Best of 2009
First on my list for Best of 2009 would have to be seeing each of my three kids take another…
Video Games and Mythology
There is a very interesting conversation happening in a comment thread on David Peak’s blog about video games, mythology, nostalgia…
Letterpress
Next time you need something printed in SoCal… Aardvark Letterpress: this place is like a mini museum. I stumbled upon…
Collaborations
I just saw this: And thought of this: What kinds of collaborations are you involved in these days?
Musicians You’ve Likely Never Heard
Yesterday, my friend Rachel Swirsky introduced me to an excellent musician named Gabriel Kahane. I am a big fan of…
What Makes You Guilty?
I have a collection with me at work today called 6 Israeli Novellas. I’m itching to read Benjamin Tammuz’ contribution,…
us versus them
in my previous post, tim jones-yelvington brought up this important point (somewhere along the comment stream) about this us v.…
Juliet Cook’s Best of 2009
Here are a few of my favorites from this year. Poetry books: ~I Have to Go Back to 1994 and…
Lazy Poet Wants Help/Lines of Poetry
Hi. I am the Lazy Poet. I need to publish because publishing is critical to my self esteem or my…