Elizabeth Ames Staudt
Ping Squirt Sabbath
Writing on the Internet about taking a break from the Internet is sort of like announcing the start of your veganhood from a cheese cave in France. But I just moved to a new city and it feels like the…
Firsts and Flings and Broken Hearts and Back in the Bookstore Saddle
Anyone reading the blog of a literary magazine must know what it’s like to lose a favorite independent bookstore. I visited Madison, Wisconsin last weekend and thought, as I always do when walking along State Street, of Canterbury Books, the…
Not for the Faint of Heart of Darkness
I’ll probably never touch a mortar & pestle again thanks to a horrifying article I read once in Harper’s. The details–save for this one mortar & pestle-featuring scene–are mostly gone from my brain, but that picture is seared there (I’ll…
World Cup Coca-Cola K’naan Fever
Carl Wilson, in his terrific contribution (an exploration of taste via C??line Dion called Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste) to the 33 1/3 series, writing here on Dion’s success internationally, and what it suggests…
Concentrate and Ask Again
The Internet is gigantic! It’s a wonder you’ve wandered here at all. As a thanks, please accept this dancing bear (via woolgathering & miscellany):
