“Probability, like time, is its own dimension.” –Jennifer L. Knox, from “Pimp My Ride” I might have to be preparing…
A Sampler of First Lines from Best of the Web 2010
Nola is splayed on the wooden floor, her skirt hiked up high above her knees, playing jacks. My son’s first-grade…
Open letter to that guy who attended one &NOW conference but gets pissed when he receives an email from &NOW, which is like twice a year, maybe.
Hey you—yes, I admit it. We’re not so professional as to really manage our mailing list in the way you…
Poetry, Language, and the Visual Arts
I’ve been ruminating today on the aphorisms of Jennifer Moxley’s “Fragments of a Broken Poetics” (from Chicago Review, Spring 2010). Worth taking…
Said and Unsaid
Here are two quotes by two foreigners about America (the first obliquely-US box office return is the most important marker…