A friend and I once debated whether critics are helpful or even necessary. She ventured no, citing a New York Times book review that attacked the work of a “seasoned” writer, and basically concluded that the novelist had, in his … Continued
On the first day of art school, I arrived prepared. I toted my 30 pounds of required supplies into the classroom, having carefully chosen each expensive paint tube and special willow charcoal from the three-page “class requirements” list. I sat … Continued
In the following, senior editor Samuel Burr gives a short note on graphic journalism, as preface to Lucy Knisley’s “The New Life of the Comic Book”. Read her work here. + “Print is dead.” This was proclaimed, and loudly—shouted from … Continued
A google search of the word ‘vagina’ brought up something interesting today: this post from Esquire’s culture blog. Stephen Marche’s editor set him loose on Naomi Wolf’s forthcoming book Vagina: A New Biography, a task which might have been better saved for someone … Continued
Even before I learned to drive, I always believed I would die in a car crash—a strange fear, canonized when my mother was in a bad accident. I knew it the moment it happened; no one told me. Magical thinking … Continued
You have asked about my whereabouts since our last conversation. There is no need to fear; I have been exploring the many coffee shops of Brooklyn.
An epigraph, likely chosen with care, though it is not impossible that it is the product of a last-minute Google search; a place setting and an empty chair; the expectation of an explanation, somewhere down the line. —A Name, Possibly Prominent. … Continued
China Miéville gave a speech at the 2012 Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference. It is on the subject of the “future of the novel.” Speeches, by nature, tend to vacillate between palliative and provocation, vibrations summed into spaces void of argument. … Continued
Perhaps, as so many contend, we young kids have very little interest in reading and writing. Follow that logic to its end…
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