So why are ‘genre’ writers more apt to make money from their writing? Is it simply because more people read…
Big Other Reading Series, #3
Mel Bosworth reads “When We are Old”, by Ben White. When We are Old by Ben White When we are…
Video Two Ways.
1. It’s been over a year since I first saw Roderick Coover’s video The Theory of Time Here (there’s a…
What did you do with your thesis?
As I wait patiently to hear back about comments on my MFA thesis, I am reminded about my BFA thesis.…
Starting a Magazine, by Maryanne Mohanraj
Today, editor and publisher Sean Wallace, directs his readers to an editorial by Maryanne Mohanraj from 2001: So You Want…
Writing/Drawing – what’s the difference?
As much as I hate to think of comics as a bifurcated process, in practice, the truth is that it…
Unpacking Post Heist
According to at least a few recent articles on book heists — including Margo Rabb’s sassy NY Times essay “Steal…
William Gass & Radiohead
Below are examples of incomparable artists eviscerating, in an eerily similar way, our consumerist society, or, as bell hooks put…
Writers Stew: Mangla vs. Gerke
Recently I sat down at my computer and had some exchanges with Ravi Mangla. Ravi lives Fairport, New York (near Rochester). His work…
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who wants this? anyone?