If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, for you are not poet enough to call…
The Understanding Campaign
Justin Sirois has started a new initiative called The Understanding Campaign, an organization that “wants everyone in the world to…
Be a Poster-Boy/Girl for Ben Brooks’ Next Book
Ben Brooks, the under-twenty author of FENCES (Fugue State Press, 2009) & AN ISLAND OF FIFTY (Mud Luscious Press, 2010)…
Nicolle Elizabeth: On Ritual
Nicolle Elizabeth: On Ritual “In my formative writing years, I only wrote when I felt ‘artistic urgency.’ This usually manifested…
Reminders: Soda Series and Big Other reading in Brooklyn
Tonight the first Soda Series: Writers in Conversation will take place at Soda Bar with Dawn Raffel, David Peak, Ana…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ted Pelton
“I had a drunk on like seven Swedes.” —Raymond Chandler Have been trying off and on for two weeks…
Matt Bell at Everyday Genius
We all know that Matt Bell, Lily Hoang, Michael Kimball, and Adam Robinson are all great writers, editors, and idea…
And theorists shall talk theory unto theorists
I wouldn’t normally link to one of my own reviews like this, but this review of Red Planets: Marxism and…
Everybody Deserves A Fancy Drunk…
Sasha Fletcher’s installment of the MLP Novel(la) series is up for pre-order. There’s a funny thing going on with the…
the sacred and the profane: a look at the cover of a book by rachel b. glaser
There might be more than one way to understand the cover of Pee on Water, the collection of short fiction…