In this trailer, we go down to Maryland to spy on Elle Muliarchyk as she shoots portraits of Stephen Dixon for our October issue. Filmed at Mr. Dixon’s Baltimore residence. About the subjects: Stephen Dixon is a two-time finalist for the … Continued
1) Poetry, my brother tells me, is too human for him. When he reads poetry he always feels like he’s missing something. Communication is very difficult for me, he tells me. 2) We are talking tonight about the lives … Continued
1. I spend a fair amount of my time enjoying the feeling of stretching, stretching as a cat does, when I wake up in the morning on the mornings when I’m … Continued
The sign at the BF Goodrich on the corner of Turk and Larkin in Downtown San Francisco said it all. “The four saddest words in the English language,” the marquee read, “are Gore Vidal Is Dead.” I have to admit—the … Continued
In our third and final installment of Aidan Koch’s series on alternative eReaders, we have perhaps the most inconvenient of all. This non-existent technological wonder is based on the noble tradition of ticker tape, the earliest digital communications medium. Old-school ticker tape tracked rising and … Continued
The British gambling company Ladbrokes recently released odds that predict a Nobel Prize for Japanese novelist and Occidental love-affair, Haruki Murakami. Just below Murakami is Chinese literary barnstormer Mo Yan. This contest—where the Western world annually holds court over … Continued
This Saturday night, Magnet Theater feature piece “Kiss*Punch*Poem,” the year-old brain child of poet Meghann Plunkett and theater co-owner Alex Marino. The show presents an unbroken improvised performance bookended by an exquisite corpse. The format is a kind of magician’s … Continued
Yesterday, The Atlantic posted an article by Robert Pondiscio entitled, “How Self-Expression Damaged My Students.” Pondiscio offers an interesting, if ultimately flawed, thesis: In early childhood writing education, the deliberate cultivation of creative or imaginative expression will ultimately impede scholarly … Continued
Corruption I am about to recite a psalm that I know. Before I begin, my expectation extends over the entire psalm. Once I have begun the words I have said remove themselves from expectation & are now held in memory … Continued
Analytic philosophy rarely relates to culture at large. But one trend provides insight into how bone-dry epistemology or metaphysics may actually relate to the way we view the world and our place in it. This year Thomas Nagel, a … Continued
