In Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, film is not an escape from the boredom of small-town life. Or it is not…
’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…
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…
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…
THE IMPOSSIBLE
I think this concept is cool. While some of us expand our reach, how about some of us also limit…
Are kitty fuckers the new faggots?
Kevin Killian’s “Zoo Story” (which appeared in his collection Little Men and was reprinted in 2009’s Impossible Princess) is about…
Killian’s Oscars
Kevin Killian’s hilarious report on the Oscars has all of Kevin’s signature moves — a destabilizing mixture of intellectualism, free-association…
Doreen Grey wrote a Natalie Portman poem in a comment thread on facebook.
Babies grow strong from the strength of Natalie’s tears Natalie would never part her lips for something as pedestrian as…
Look! Look! Sequins!
[I wanted the title of this post to be: Look! Look! Feathers Sequins! …which is what Mike Young did to…