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1) Three cheers for a team of students from Portland’s
Moore Middle School who are advancing to display their
science project at a national Project Citizen
showcase in Boston.
Said project, titled: “Fight the White Pollution: The Dangers of Styrofoam,”
was presented to the city council and school committee and proposed ...
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The Internet has changed the hierarchy of the fashion industry. It may not have rendered it egalitarian in the truest sense — clicking through the latest Marc Jacobs show on style.com doesn’t quite compare to being front-row center, and thumbing through a glossy magazine isn’t exactly the same as producing it from behind the scenes — but that ...
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Yesterday, Maureen Dowd compared Barack Obama to Jane Austen's prideful Mr. Darcy, and took the metaphor farther by claiming that we Americans are collectively his Elizabeth Bennet. Fine. Dowd also casts John McCain as Wickham, the manipulative lying cad who somehow pulls the wool over even an intelligent person's eyes.
I've spent some part of ...
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Yesterday, Maureen Dowd compared Barack Obama to Jane Austen's prideful Mr. Darcy, and took the metaphor farther by claiming that we Americans are collectively his Elizabeth Bennet. Fine. Dowd also casts John McCain as Wickham, the manipulative lying cad who somehow pulls the wool over even an intelligent person's eyes.
I've spent ...
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I met with Red Hen Press managing editor Kate Gale a few weeks ago, at the tail end of her stint speaking to Stonecoast MFA students here in Maine. We talked about the state of independent publishing, taking risks on books (and authors), and a shared love of Anne Carson (my appreciation is thanks to Nina, who happened to review a Red Hen book last ...
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I am moving in the middle of August, downsizing from a
sizeable two-bedroom apartment I shared with another human and two cats to a
small one-bedroom that will be just for me and the felines. As a result, I have
to streamline my possessions, and the hardest part of this challenge will be
purging some of my “literary
clutter,” i.e. the books ...
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Many articles and web sites have taken note recently of the proliferation of literary tattoos, and the blogs that love them.
(Here's one of my personal faves:)
Now, I've discovered another group of intellectuals who like to wear their academic discipline as a sleeve (or at least on the small of their back, or on their bicep) -- ...
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In 2004, my Phoenix colleague Mike Miliard wrote a great piece about Massachusetts native Nick Flynn, and Flynn's memoir: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (WW Norton, 2004). Flynn's first full-length play, Alice Invents A Little Game and Alice Always Wins was published by Faber & Faber this month, and I had the chance to read it ...
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Warning: Don't peruse Burned By
Love if you're going through a breakup. I guarantee it'll make you feel
worse.
When I first stumbled across it a few weeks ago, there were only a handful
of entries. Today, the promotional site, set up to help publicize Andrew
Davidson's debut novel, The Gargoyle (Random
House, 2008), ...
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Via Bookslut, I found The Loss of Hope and Love, where Jamaica Plain resident (he'll be moving to Brighton in a month) Jim McGrath writes poems comprised of words he finds in newspaper articles. Like this one, titled "Stars," written last Friday and culled from this heartwrenching article about a New York homicide:
The whole ...
