&NOW 5 at UCSD as a wild, raucous ride, courtesy of our many participants and the world’s best organizers: Amina…
#AuthorFail: Index
Ah, #AuthorFail, how we miss you. And how. And how we now present, in your memory, the index of your…
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter at the Gallows
Edward’s book is now available. It’s stark, it’s funny, it’s sad–verse reflected by the book’s cover (also by Edward): American…
the world re-imagined, or a book cover as art, or what snoop dogg taught me about mark leidner
I was on the Internet when I first saw the cover of Mark Leidner’s new book, “Beauty Was the Case…
Bram Stoker’s private notebook discovered.
read about it here.
What I Learned from “Travesty”
It was Curt White who told me to read it. In workshop, he stressed the importance of having a good…
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 3: “Strangeways, Here We Come”
We continue listening through the somewhat-less-famous Smiths albums, gleaning their better tracks for our ultimate deep cuts playlist. (Already covered:…
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 2: “Meat Is Murder”
So we’re listening through the Smiths albums that aren’t the three essential ones—The Queen Is Dead, Singles, Louder Than Bombs—looking…
A Book With a Broken Heart: On Robert Kloss’s How the Days of Love and Diptheria
Let’s just get this out there: I think Robert Kloss is one of the most exciting writers to emerge from…
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, part 1: “The Smiths”
It’s true what folks say: if you own The Queen Is Dead, Singles, and Louder Than Bombs, then you own…