October 2011
15 posts
Leviathan Wakes - "Meh"view I didn't write the...
For a hundred pages, Leviathan Wakes had me tricked. I almost didn’t need to read the rest of the book - there was no way what had been set up could collapse in any way that was disappointing. And every time you get one of those books, where you know you’re in the middle of something you’d blow your friends off for, things click. You start filling a hole airport novels just...
Dan Gurewitch: Advice to Political Journalists →
dangurewitch:
Love your interviews with politicians - great suits! But I feel like there’s this super helpful follow-up question you have in your back pockets, and none of you guys use it! Maybe you’re shy? Or you’re just excited to get onto your next question because you had it written down on your pad? In…
Kurt Vonnegut reads his (then) short story,...
I am currently phoneless. In case anyone was...
My dad makes me lol
Bruce Holwerda: Need Tiger update, on road!
Me: Tigers up 2-0, back to back home runs in first inning. Find the game on the radio.
Bruce Holwerda: Not on radio!
Me: Xm? Stream from your phone?
Bruce Holwerda: No Xm dumb phone!
Bruce Holwerda: Just got to hotel saw fister getem out
3 tags
ahuntersheart:
James Hall: I love that you risk sentimentality in the poems. Can you talk about how you construct a poem’s emotion without letting that emotion subsume the poem? What tools are available to a poet to mitigate emotion successfully?
Richard Siken: I didn’t see it as risking anything, and I suppose the tool for mitigating emotion is undercutting, but I’ll try to answer the question...
Shooting for Third: Brian Eugene Abrahamson:... →
kylekinane:
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO TOURING COMICS: Avoid working for Sioux Falls booker Brian Eugene Abrahamson at all costs. He will not pay. He is not a sad-sack down on his luck as he’d like you to believe. From what I’ve discovered after the fact, he books people with the promise of a set amount but has no…
