Recent Articles
May 31, 2013
Aposthropocalypse 0
by Tess Malone
There’s an Apostrophe Protection Society, and it’s in crisis mode.
May 31, 2013
Don’t Quit Your Day Job 0
by Tess Malone
Writer Manjula Martin has been a stock girl, used bookseller, seamstress, waitress, retailer, Girl Friday- just to name a few of her day jobs. She questions the value of the artist’s day job in her VQR post. “Why are writers so eager to leave work behind?” she writes.
May 31, 2013
Blues Traveler 0
by Tess Malone
John Cline is retracing the Great Migration route from New Orleans to Chicago for his Oxford American column, “Arterial America.” In his latest dispatch, he discovers Jackson, Mississippi’s hip-hop community.
May 31, 2013
Losing My Book Fair Virginity at the BEA Swag-A-Thon 3
by Bill Morris
The vast autograph area at BEA brought to mind the cattle pens in a Midwestern feed lot. Indeed, many of the people waiting in line looked like beasts of burden, draped with bulging bags of swag and hankering for more.
May 31, 2013
The Worst Beach Read: On Amy Sackville’s Orkney 0
by Matt Seidel
Richard compiles instead an “endless index” of his wife, which I’ve collected and will reproduce here lest anyone be looking for a new pet name for his or her significant other: little half-breed; daughter of the sea; shape-shifting goddess; barefoot urchin; frog princess; faery queen; nymph; northern girl; tricky capricious Ariel; clamped little clamshell; frond of pallid wrack; spined and spiky urchin; storm-witch; and little limpet.
May 30, 2013
New Blog Highlights Writers of Color 0
by Tess Malone
Are you a journalist of color? Aminatou Sow and Jamelle Bouie started a new Tumblr Journos of Color that showcases articles by writers of color and accepts submissions.