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Ten for Ten #3: Books I Loved in 2010 by Adam Fitzgerald
Someone Else’s Wedding Vows Bianca Stone Argos Books The lament over the Death of the Book—the physical, battery-less variety—is ubiquitous. E-books and e-readers, iPads, Kindles and something called Nook are supposedly our dreaded enemies…
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Robert Warshow on “The New Yorker” (1947)
"The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and…
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Allergic Girl Comes Calling by Stacey Harwood
I’ve been following Sloane Miller’s career for years now as she’s transformed herself from an aspiring writer to an effective advocate for people with food allergies. She was among the first to be featured…
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An Epiphany of sorts. (by Tynan Davis)
Last night my parents and I went on a little cultural excursion here in Alexandria, LA: A family field trip to the drive-thru daquiri shacks! That's right, folks! Drive-thru booze. There are 3 frozen…
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Ten for Ten: Books I Loved in 2010 by Adam Fitzgerald
The New Tourism Harry Mathews Sand Paper Press Harry Mathews is one of the best kept secrets in American poetry—apparently even from himself. In a recent reading he gave at 192 Books to celebrate The…
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Hail to thee, Herr Hershon and “Hanging Loose”
The new issue of Hanging Loose in hand reminds me to protest an injustice done to the poet Jeni Olin, a hardy Hanging Loose perennial, in the December Vanity Fair. There was much to…
