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The Author Who Relied on Coincidence

Michael Robbins — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:37:51 +0000

I’ve rarely read a good thriller that didn’t, at some point, rely on coincidence to advance its plot. But nothing undoes a thriller like a poorly managed coincidence, & The Girl Who Played with Fire, the late Swedish mystery author…

Help Us Win!

Robert P. Baird — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:28:13 +0000

Dear friends of Digital Emunction: Josh Baldwin and I need your help! Vote for one of our posts at 3 Quarks Daily (my mini-essay on A Lume Spento or Josh’s “Fake Book Review 9″) and we could win real live actual money.…

Shorter Post Than the Previous Two

Joshua Baldwin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:47:49 +0000

Futons.

There Is a God

Michael Robbins — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:06:53 +0000

Oh, finally.

U of C Popo put undergrad in chokehold

Anahid Nersessian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:21:44 +0000

Unfortunately, not a joke.

Go Sonya!

Robert P. Baird — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:59:06 +0000

The Seattle Weekly ran a great interview with my pal Sonya Schneider about The Thin Place, the new play she’s writing for the Intiman Theater here in Seattle. The play will open in May and will star Gbenga Akinnagbe, who played Chris Partlow…

Fake Book Review 16

Joshua Baldwin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:26:00 +0000

Garbage Boyz James Fred. Hit! Press, $12.95 paper (176p) ISBN 000-0-000000-01-6

Brixton sensation Fred, in this peppy novel about a pair of cousins — Hesh, 17, and Marlick, 19 — who spend a weekend throwing a bunch of garbage off “Grammy’s terrace”…

I’m a Runaway Son of the Nuclear A-Bomb

Michael Robbins — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:05:47 +0000

Bobby has made Mailer’s tag his own, but this is an advertisement fa mice elf agin. I’ll be reading my poems at Myopic Books this Saturday, February 20, at 7 pm. Details here. Daniel Borzutzky is also reading, so please…

A Found Review of Peter O’Leary’s Benedicite (with help from Mark Johnston and Susan Sontag)

Robert P. Baird — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:37:41 +0000

Every era has to reinvent the project of “spirituality” for itself. If you abolish the symbols, then you tear down the walls of your own house. There is, then, a question as to whether your god is really God.

As Nietzsche says: “Our…

RIP Alexander McQueen

Anahid Nersessian — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:36:13 +0000

For an ambivalent clotheshorse like myself, there was never a better reason to follow mainstream fashion. A huge loss in a rough year for creativity. Watch em and weep, even you, boys.