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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
The day after Jack Kerouac’s funeral, I was sitting around a table of Beat writers. Allen Ginsberg was across from me. Gregory Corso and I were discussing the merits of various writers. I then…
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The Growing Season [by Sonja Johanson]
From a drought, a year that has died, Gone down into deadness. — William Everson Everson’s writing is lush and provocative, but he got autumn wrong. Far from being a season…
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Take a look: “Decals of Desire” New Online Magazine of Art and Poetry
Concert (2015) collage (c) John Ashbery We're excited to announce the first issue of a new online magazine of art and poetry: Decals of Desire. The founding editor is British artist and poet Rupert…
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What the Pumpkin Wants [by Sonja Johanson]
It is, as they say over at McSweeney’s, decorative gourd season…. As a dedicated vegetable lover, the characterization of edible squashes as “gourds” grieves me. We portray them merely as colorful fall decorations,…
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Word of the Day: “Otiose”
o·ti·ose ˈōSHēˌōs,ˈōtēˌōs/ adjective 1..serving no practical purpose or result. "So we must be vigilant in keeping story lengths appropriate. Bluntly — but obviously, I hope — every story should be as…
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THE POEMING (by Sonja Johanson)
This fall people worry about clowns in the woods. The evil clown image can be found in Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, but Stephen King’s Pennywise from It gets most of the blame these days. The…
