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Headstrong girls and women make the best narrators—they’re sassy, agitated, and predisposed toward action once their inner injustice detectors calculate the full measure of their circumstances.
I am compelled, my dearest Adaugo, to tailor this letter to free your lovesick mind from silliness, for the likes of Obinna have loosened in your head that which makes us fools, keeping your sturdy soul in mental torture.
Edgardo Flores is at work on a second album as Simontronic, a quirky and beautiful electronic project that he founded with Joe Fraley in Monrovia, CA. He is also the writer/director of a full length feature film, Ill Square.
Right off the bat, Scorch Atlas asserts itself as, if not the coolest-looking book you’ve ever fanned between your fingers, on the short-list, interior and exterior alike.
I don't have any important memories. I have a bunch of stupid memories.
Reading Roth is like being instantly transferred into another mind, a mind in which all the boring crap has been burned away. It's mesmerizing and stimulating and exciting and soothing all at once
It would be an understatement to say that Roth has never excelled at writing women characters. Aside from his vividly memorable depictions of his male protagonists’ mothers, Roth has rarely offered a convincing portrayal of a female character in a novel.
"The truth is I'm fascinated by the details where different circles of culture overlap and by the manifold ways in which we now treat the profane as the sacred and vice versa."
A foreign language is a perfect stand-in for a parent: stern but accomodating, solid but flexible. Immense, possibly well-travelled, with non-negotiable limitations that soothe and please as well as enrage. Apparently ageless (but certain to die). Infinitely present. Embracing. Yours.
Chronic City can entertain readers and writers who are willing to patiently dissect its meaning and formulate its connections, who happily place ideas and themes on pedestals in whose shadows lurk plot and character.
A comical look at the different types of women you're bound to find in an art gallery, from curator to docent.
The Activist Artist: An Interview With Wendy TestuSan Francisco-based artist and teacher Wendy Testu discusses her latest project: a labor of love that galvanizes one community around its social and environmental history.
Interview with Denton, TX musician Matthew Gray of Matthew & the Arrogant Sea on the urge to live raw, dream silly, and decategorize everything.
Irene admitted by degrees that she’d been diagnosed with advanced brain cancer. Suddenly I saw "my babysitter" more clearly, as someone self-interested, even willing to deceive me--commit that sin of passion--if she thought that's what it took to keep her with "her babies."
Aural Improvisations: An Interview with Poet Major Jackson"There is a period of gestation that leads to a kind of quiet and silence and distance, space. What filters through is what becomes the material for the poem."
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DVD Review: Ginevra's Story
Timeless Interview: Mark Kozelek
Reimagining Beckett: New Interpretation Takes "Waiting for Godot" to Post-Katrina New Orleans 
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