From what I’ve heard tell of it, Alice Munro’s stories are marked by their compassion, their empathy, their poignancy, by…
A Great New Reading Series. A Little Self-Promotion. But Only Because the Lineup is So Good.
For those of you in the Beltway area, or who’d love to take a trip to visit us: Three Tents…
Mark Rappaport’s Blind Dates
Today marks the start of Anthology Film Archive’s four-day retrospective of Mark Rappaport, the visionary director behind two of my…
’91 Book of Models
In the 1990’s, some will shampoo their hair. Others, at eight years of age, will create colorful books of anatomically…
His Light Materials: Puig, Film, and “Gruesome Tangos”
I hope some of you are reading and digging Manuel Puig’s Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. In my first post, I…
Writing & Cultural Transformation: A Response to Roxane Gay’s Rumpus Essay
Roxane Gay’s Rumpus article, The Careless Language of Sexual Violence, has been receiving a lot of well-deserved attention. One of…
CALLED: a new chapbook from Kate Greenstreet
Delete Press, a fine looking press based in Fort Collins, CO, is expanding its young catalogue in an exciting way…details…
Speaking of ads that reference great art…
Everywhere now I see these Svedka Vodka ads. What I can’t figure out is whether they’re deliberately making a clever…
Lee Redmond, former world record holder
Lee Redmond is my new obsession. She deserves to be considered a FASHION ICON. Lee did not cut her fingernails…
I know I prefer auto ads when they swipe from Antonioni films
From Yahoo Mail: Cf. Antonioni’s 1975 masterpiece The Passenger: (Notice how this clip’s presented by Audi? Even horrible corporations love…