In which the legendary author/illustrator gives an example of how to respond in a situation where selling out is suggested…
xTx and Frank Hinton Chapbook Contest at Vouched
Did you get your hands on a copy of xTx’s or Frank Hinton’s chapbook from Safety Third Enterprises back when…
Animal Studies & Rilke’s “Black Cat”
“An animal looks at me. What should I think of this sentence?” –Jacques Derrida In today’s print issue of the…
Outside the Tradition
“Nothing in your education or experience can have prepared you for this film: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain.” Presumably, nearly…
Cains and Abels
is a Chicago band. I caught their New Year’s Day set at the Whistler in Logan Square. During their soundcheck,…
Tell it Slant: Vendler on Dickinson
I’ve said before in this space and I’ll say it again: the single most important element of literature to me…
2011, the Best of
I’m keeping it simple this year. Especially on the music front. I kept delaying this post, because it would literally…
A Magnum for Schneider
In the mid-1960s, ITV in Britain produced a series of one-off dramas under the title ‘Armchair Theatre’. It was originally…
A Year of Reading
I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You…
Newfound Footage from Stephen Elliott’s Shining Postscript and the Politics of Reading “Adrien Brody”
“It never ceases to startle me that a brilliant thinker can be such a bad writer. It challenges some of…