The sport of horse racing, which celebrates the whipping of inbred and fragile horses for purposes of monetary gain, has been sullied.
Reading Tweets From Tahrir, a collection of tweets from the English-speaking vanguard of the Egyptian revolution, I remembered what struck me as so important about the events a few months ago, and why that moment will continue to resonate no matter what road the Arab world takes- young people made change happen, and for a moment, their nation beamed.
The possibly true last moments of Cosmonaut Vladimir Kamarov
Whilst scanning the endlessly entertaining List of Unusual Deaths a few years ago, I became interested in the life of Vladimir Kamarov, a Cosmonaut whose Soyuz mission ended in disaster when it struck the earth at full-speed in a state of total malfunction.
William Vollmann in Japan’s Restricted Zone
William T. Vollmann, author of Imperial, The Atlas, and several other incredibly intense works of fiction and journalism, ventured into Japan’s “contaminated” zone while covering the fallout of March’s tsunami and resulting nuclear catastrophe.
Chelsey Johnson interviews Eileen Myles
Full Stop fave Chelsey Johnson interviews poet, sometimes-novelist and legendary badass Eileen Myles over at the Rumpus.
Wells Tower in the “Far Eastern Conference” with Stephon Marbury
Wells Tower has written a pretty great piece about former Coney Island Baby, T’Wolves prodigy, and Knicktastrophe Stephon Marbury. The article reveals Marbury would like to found a minor-nation in the American South by selling inexpensive sneakers (AND it might just happen)
The Literary Knicks and The End of Free Darko
Embedded in the Free Darko’s beatific rendering of NBA history, The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, is a tribute to “The Literary Knicks”, the championship teams of the early seventies who rocked both mutton and writing chops.
Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer!
Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Roald Dahl Stories to Appear on UK Cereal Boxes
Let me tell you 5 ways in which this plan will totally backfire and destroy a generation of future Ricky Gervais’s, and Hugh Grants’s, and other bumbling footy-players.
Spend the Night at the New York Public Library
On May 20th, the library will open its doors to 500 young writers, who will spend the night on a scavenger hunt for some of the library’s most important works. Each participant will write an essay about their findings and the essays will be collected in a book (which will be sent, in a pneumatic tube, directly to God).