Eileen Tabios’ latest book Silk Egg is a Wunderkammer — in fact, a series of Wunderkammers — curated with the eccentric intelligence and…
Paddy
Patrick Leigh Fermor is dead. Another great writer I now will never meet. He was 96, a grand age, but…
A Review of Susan Daitch’s Storytown
Storytown, Susan Daitch’s first collection, is a singular achievement, displaying a virtuosic command of technique in service to a kind…
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 4)
Federico Fellini was directing La Città delle donne (City of Women). Francis Ford Coppola finished directing Apocalypse Now.
The Big Other Interview #253: Mark Brand
Mark Brand is a Chicagoland polymath: editor, writer, videopodcaster, former medical assistant. We met not long before I was a…
A Death Star for Curtis
I can’t find the full strip online, alas.