Mike Daisey Controversy, Jeanette Winterson on Gender Bias, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff This American Life retracted its popular episode featuring an excerpt from Mike Daisey's one-man show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs; new brain imaging studies indicate the...
View ArticleMike Daisey Controversy, Jeanette Winterson on Gender Bias, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff This American Life retracted its popular episode featuring an excerpt from Mike Daisey's one-man show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs; new brain imaging studies indicate the...
View ArticleW11-16-12PetalumaHighSchool-Flores
Mr. Flores is a creative and dynamic speaker who had our audience of high school students mesmerized. They were so excited that just before the last poem they asked if they could video him—so for the...
View ArticleW11-16-12PetalumaHighSchool-Flores
Mr. Flores is a creative and dynamic speaker who had our audience of high school students mesmerized. They were so excited that just before the last poem they asked if they could video him—so for the...
View ArticleB*tches in Bookshops
Check out the dope rhymes in La Shea Delaney and Annabelle Quezada's literary version of a song by Jay Z and Kayne West. "War and Peace, piece of cake, read Tolstoy in three days. / Straight through,...
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Portland, Maine
Ron Currie Jr. On his writers tour of Portland, Maine, award-winning author Ron Currie Jr. sets out to "dispel the persistent notion that Maine is intellectually DOA" by showcasing the city's thriving...
View ArticleVisit a Museum
Visit a museum or an art gallery. While looking at the art, transcribe fragments from the written descriptions and/or titles that accompany each work. Create a poem out of the fragments you've...
View ArticleLooking for the Literary Establishment, Amazon Buys Robot Company, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff In three days following the recent release of the newest iPad, Apple sold three million units; novelist Geoff Dyer looks for the literary establishment; analyzing sales data, a...
View ArticleImagine
"The act of feeling frustrated is an essential part of the creative process," says Jonah Lehrer in the trailer for his new book Imagine: How Creativity Works (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). "We need to...
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Mark Liebenow
liebenow.jpg “Lately I’ve been going to the symphony for inspiration. I don’t know classical music well, so most of what happens surprises me. The long segments of developing sounds break me out of my...
View ArticleSlogan Story
Record the slogans you see on billboards and in other advertising as you go about your daily routine—Prescription Drug Misuse Is a Growing Trend; Forever Engagements; Truth & Honesty: That's the...
View ArticleThe Dimensions of Suffering
In Sarah Manguso’s memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), the author writes, “suffering, however much and whatever type, shrinks or swells to fit the shape and size of a...
View ArticlePirates Release Judith Tebbutt, the Making of Edith Wharton, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Judith Tebbutt, the wife of slain Faber & Faber executive David Tebbutt, was released after seven months held captive in Somalia; Joan Didion has canceled an upcoming appearance...
View ArticleOn Being Old
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams delivered the Poetry Society's annual lecture at Newcastle University in the UK last summer. The seventy-five-year-old chose as his topic On Being Old,...
View ArticleMillhauser's We Others Triumphs at Story Prize
Last night Steven Millhauser took the Story Prize, the annual award celebrating a short story collection published in the previous year, at a ceremony in New York City. read more
View ArticleFeds Seize Marijuana Bound for St. Martin's Press, Poet Laureate of Limbo,...
Evan Smith Rakoff Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg explains how she's the poet laureate both of Kansas and of limbo; in response to a school ban of ethnic studies, writers and activists delivered an...
View ArticleHistory of English
Be careful or you just might learn a thing or two from this fun animated video from the Open University. The entire history of the English language in ten minutes. Ready. Set. Go. Video URL:...
View ArticleCollected Works Bookstore and Coffee House
Collected Works is an independent and locally-owned business, located in downtown Santa Fe which has an inventory of over 30,000 titles, including a large selection of local travel, Southwest and...
View ArticleAntigone Books
Located in Tucson's Fourth Avenue shopping district, Antigone Books is an independent bookstore with a feminist slant. The bookstore hosts four different book clubs (Democracy and Dissent Book Group,...
View ArticleBookworks
Bookworks is a locally-owned, locally-operated, independent bookstore in Albuqueque that was founded in 1984. The store hosts regular events, along with a book group and knitting group. Website:...
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