AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) 2012 Conference Schedule
We hacked a high-ranking AWP official’s cell phone and found a copy of the prestigious literary conference’s 2012 schedule. Events include: Pregret: Living a Life Ripe for Memoir, Working with Child Editors, and a reading from MFA candidates at Oral Roberts University.
From Combray to Hollywood: Remembrance of Cakes Past
Either this guy really likes cakes or there’s something else going on here.
Beating a Horse That Will Never Die
Sometimes, when I’m two tumblers of wine in and the only thing on television is a Jonas brother, and the page in front of me is blank, and I don’t have anything to write about, I default to my favorite blog topic — “what horrible thing has Amazon done lately?”
YOU DON’T DESERVE KRAFTWERK TICKETS
If you have a job where you make enough money to blow over a grand on a concert ticket, I hate you. If your parents give you that kind of cash to spend on concerts, I hate you even more. You don’t deserve to see Kraftwerk. Here’s why.
Insistently postmodern, Coriolanus is first and foremost a meta-film, a film about the way in which representation constitutes reality as much as it reflects it.
See Spot. See Spot Run. See Spot Explain HTTP Cookies.
When I see Google’s protracted, kid-friendly versions of complex concepts, they do not inspire peace of mind. In fact, these minimalist panels remind me of something that has been making me quite uneasy — my ever more “personalized” Google search results.
Before Portland, Seattle. Before Portlandia, Almost Live!
Almost Live! functions as an immaculate time capsule of the frumpy boomtimes that once graced the Emerald City.
Football and fracking are both inherently dangerous, inherently dirty and immensely appealing.
Confessions of a Fan Photographer
Full Stop editor Max Rivlin-Nadler has a piece up now over at The Classical (which we like, a lot) about his time as fan photographer at Madison Square Garden. We recommend it.
It’s kind of an expressionist critique of writing that less holds the authors’ flaws up to a mirror than creates a grotesque sock puppet caricature of the work; mimicking the tone while throwing the voice.