Virally Looking Visualization of Current U.S. Roads
This is cool. Gives me a headache just thinking about everything south of Boston, North of D.C. The West looks pretty good right about now, too. Thx to Wikipedia and to Sadie Stein’s post on The Paris...
View ArticleRogue Street Artist Bests Best Buy
A Los Angeles-based street artist named “Plastic Jesus” has installed several “useless boxes” in a handful of Best Buys around L.A. Using Best Buy’s packaging, the piece-of-shit-and-good-for-nothing...
View ArticleThe Business of Dying: C.D. Wright’s Investigative Poetry
The ultimate price of life is death. Each individual ultimately works toward living a life that is worthy of death. This, however, takes on a dual meaning. Living a life worthy of death can be one...
View ArticleThe Only Writing Advice That Matters
Sent to us by artist and literary man John Tebeau: an original piece of writerly inspiration. Writing every day. That’s definitely the best advice to give. The muscle gets stronger and stronger with...
View ArticleWhy I Love Reading Proust
As of this morning, at 11:26 am, I’ve been reading Marcel Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu for eleven months. Not continuously, but off and on, in spurts and bursts depending on the day, the...
View ArticleHow to Make a Poetry Interview Go Viral?
In this age of digital nonsense, one thing is certain: it’s possible to share something with billions of people within a matter of seconds. Usually, it’s just garbage lists full of photoshopped...
View ArticleThe Sisters Brothers: Hilarious, Murderous, Loveable Psychopaths
Had to DVR the World Cup game to finish this one. A hilarious picaresque novel about Eli and Charlie Sisters, two brothers who fumble down the Oregon Coast to California, where they’ve been hired to...
View ArticleWhere Do You Write?
The writer’s desk, a sacred space of courting the muse, of blocking out the noise, and getting down to work. For me, I need to see the people I love, the writers I admire, and it doesn’t hurt to have a...
View ArticleWhy We Write
Love this, from Grant Snider’s Incidental Comics: For further explanation, please consider the Art-Fame-Soul Diagram. The post Why We Write appeared first on THE LITERARY MAN.
View ArticleIf Only Every Book Could Finish Like This
I do. I really do want every book to leave you wondering why every book isn’t as special as The Fault in Our Stars. Hot damn, people!! Sometimes books best-sell for a reason. It is futile to add more...
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