Mike Young’s blog post about gender, the body and language is fantastic.
Page 100 Comics
It seems that a few comics artists have set about adapting page 100 of particular prose novels. I really like…
Want to Launch a Book?
I think Flatmancrooked’s launch concept is brilliant, & so far I have not been disappointed by their books either. &…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: On Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw flame…”
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string…
Articles on Collaboration by William Walsh
At the Kenyon Review blog, William Walsh has been posting about collaborations. Since I’d been posting about the topic over…
Can Video Games Be Art?
So Roger Ebert has once again thrown down the Gauntlet, insisting that video games are not art—and what’s more, that…
Anatomy of two poems: Matt Jasper (by Keith Nathan Brown)
Matt Jasper’s poetry debut, Moth Moon, was recently published by BlazeVOX. In clear, often sparse language, Jasper seeks to render…
Passive versus Active: DEATH MATCH, or possibly, just a cup of tea
At the invitation of Niall Harrison from Torque Control I’m participating in a blog discussion about N. K. Jemisin’s The…
Drought Resistant Strain by Mather Schneider
When I first began noticing his comments on HTMLGIANT, I was pretty convinced that Mather Schneider’s name was the alias…
Matches Made in Heaven
I was in a coffee shop recently. There were books along the walls. This is an interesting phenomenon, in and…