Do you have problems with your love life? Hate your job? Your social life lacking that certain zing? All questions...
Matias Viegener's 2500 Random Things About Me, Too may be an answer to that question of what we do with our powers of digital text and connection. As our brains rewire, immersed in the great weirdness of cut-n-paste cyber space, social networks, and 24/7 technological tethers, perhaps we can take the engineering constraints of the mediums to make profound and shockingly intimate art. Read More
“I’ve loved the dead too much,” Richard Foerster concedes in “Burning the Names,” one of many tough-minded, delicately crafted poems...
While reading Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton, the story of Rushdie’s life in hiding after he was “sentenced to death” by the...
I can’t remember when freedom of speech didn’t matter to me. Perhaps it was from growing up with activist parents...
Get Booked! Romance Reading at Las Vegas Pride Get Booked, one of the few remaining independent LGBT bookstores in the...
"Literature is a documentation of our values, our flaws, our most strident and/or ridiculous aspirations- and the best literature truly pushes how we think of ourselves, of others, of consciousness and mortality and thinking itself." Read More
“We were put in the mood for ghosts….”
So begins what has been called one of Edith Wharton’s finest short stories, “The Eyes.” “The Eyes” is a psychological fable artfully disguised as a Gothic ghost story, and as such “The Eyes” warns its readers, among other things, against the personal consequences of denying one’s sexuality. Read More
We tend to think of ourselves as an image saturated and obsessed society. We’ve made print cheap, we’re surrounded by...
“all day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade.” -Rumi The summer that...
