Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver I know it’s been said before, and I’m not here to raise the picket sign, ‘MEET […]
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Death Becomes Them by Alix Strauss
Death Becomes Them by Alix Strauss Did you know that one person attempts suicide every thirty-four seconds and one death occurs for every twenty-five suicide attempts? In America eighty-six people succeed at killing themselves every […]
Fateful Acts
On February 26, 2009, Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times of Philipp Meyer: “American Rust announces the arrival of a gifted new writer — a writer who understands how place and personality and […]
Julie Sheehan Recites
[wpvideo i7uniFhO] Julie Sheehan reciting “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W. B. Yeats.
Justin Taylor Reads
[wpvideo dhVLGi7W] Justin Taylor reading “I See Tiny Mouths” by Anthony McCann from the Agriculture Reader.
Amy Berkowitz Reads Ish Klein
[wpvideo 6Ed7lrK5] Amy Berkowitz reads a poem from Ish Klein’s new book UNION!
Jono Tosch Reads
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Katharine Coles
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Gary Clark
[wpvideo 4j6Zt5eD] Gary Clark reading “An Appearance in New Hampshire” from Rivendell Vol. 1 No. 2
Ish Klein Reads "The Phases"
[wpvideo UwPpsyd2] Ish Klein reads “The Phases,” from her new book UNION! to Bernadette.
Mathias Svalina Reads Julie Doxsee
[wpvideo vLJo3OqF] Mathias Svalina reading from Julie Doxsee’s book Undersleep
Kim Addonizio Reads "Ex-Boyfriends"
[wpvideo dletWcOK] Kim Addonizio reads “Ex-Boyfriends.”
Lit Bits
“Does being ‘great’ simply mean writing poems that are ‘great’? If so, how many? Or does ‘greatness’ mean having a sufficiently ‘great’ project? If you have such a project, can you be ‘great’ while writing […]
Bad Writer Karma
I stole a book yesterday. I know, I know, I know. It was stupid, and I really didn’t meant to do it. It just…happened. There’s a Barnes & Noble about a five-minute drive from my […]
Blake Butler and Daniel Bailey
[wpvideo q7WYC6YV] Blake Butler and Daniel Bailey read “Catalogue Entry for Aging” from Someone Else’s Body by Claire Donato.
Of Course We Suck
I’m not one for celebrity autobiographies. They have a tendency to be to self-gratifying and in most cases boring. Most that are published (e.g., any Osmond sibling’s tell-all, or any book with the subtitle “In […]
A Recommendation
Over the holiday break I read—more like gorged on—Sandra Cisneros’ short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek. Many of her short stories are only a couple of pages, yet they left me feeling full, complete and utterly […]
Quality of Life
Lush Life, by Richard Price pub. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 “So, what do you do?” Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But […]
Really? No shortcut?
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” […]
You’re Never Too Old For A Fairy Tale…
Do you remember how fairy tales affected you as a child? Young braided Gretel pushing the witch into the oven, to save her brother Hansel? Birds that ate the breadcrumbs? Children lost in the darkest […]