I’m going to review stories from the latest issue of the Santa Monica Review (Spring 2012). This is the first review. Rhoda Huffey’s “Rima” is a wicked satire of fundamentalist Christian culture, skipping from spinster missionaries to the archeology of Noah’s ark. The story is surreal not only because of its brevity but because of […]
This is not your typical list of fatherhood books. You’re not going to find any of those cleverly titled books like “My Boys Can Swim!” or anything with “emergency” or “idiot” in the title. What you will find is a carefully curated list that represents my knowledge on the subject. Which is, admittedly, limited. Especially […]
storySouth announced its ninth annual list of notable short stories published online. Some of the best online publications that you should watch: Prick of the Spindle, which garnered three notable stories of 2011. Memorious, which I’ve always liked and has great design in addition to interesting stories, got two nods. Phong Nguyen, the fiction editor […]
If you have seen Melancholia by Lars von Trier and know about the writing colony MacDowell, this will be amusing. Otherwise, this will be very, very strange. MACDOWELLANCHOLIA
Gunter Grass’ anti-Israel poem has caused such an outcry that Benjamin Netanyahu has already condemned it, along with hundreds of other intellectuals. The poem has only been published in German but The Guardian has translated and excerpted a few lines. The most thorough dismantling of Grass came from Anshel Pfeffer, writing in the Israeli newspaper […]
This is going to be the biggest children’s book since “Go the F*ck to Sleep”:
Matt Kish of “Moby Dick in Pictures” designed this incredible book cover for Robert Kloss’ “The Alligators of Abraham.” Below you can see his first attempt at the cover. But how much better is that second version, right?
I got 872 words a minute, but most other tests clock me at 700 or slower. Still, a nice little test. Source: Staples eReader Department
It’s been a week since AWP ended. If you’re like me, you still haven’t thrown out the things you collected from the main floor that were cool at the moment but quickly transformed into tchotchkes in the light of the real world. Say, for instance, pins. Yeah, every lit journal gave away pins with tiny logos […]
