The 11th annual Waikiki SPAM Jam, described as a “cultural tradition,” takes place this Saturday! There will be free food, entertainment, Hawaiian crafts, and a family-friendly atmosphere! Booths will be set up to collect donations of SPAM for the Hawaiʻi…
Uncle Spam Wants You
Craig Santos Perez
April 26, 2013
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Notes From Lockdown, Ten Minutes from Norfolk Street in Cambridge
James Flaherty
April 25, 2013
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James Flaherty is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts Dzhokhar is my neighbor. I might have waited in line behind him at CVS. We might have exchanged a glance of droll amusement passing through rush-hour traffic on Mass. Ave. He…
‘We’re So Lucky’
M. Lynx Qualey
April 22, 2013
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Often, when we Americans leap into a discussion about “free speech” — a phrase that has become so over-stretched that it’s ceased to mean much of anything – we find ourselves responding with belly-rubbing complacency: “Ah, things sure are bad…
Goodreads Review of Reality’s New Thriller, THE PRESSURE COOKERS
Amit Majmudar
April 21, 2013
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One way to understand the fundamental difference between nonfiction and fiction is to consider how what works in one doesn’t work in the other. There are elements of structure, pacing, and–paradoxically enough–believability that reality is free to ignore, but a fiction…
Venues for Readings: The Noisy, The Cavernous, The Strange
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
April 20, 2013
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Most months of the year, I’m lucky enough to attend at least one prose or poetry reading each week. At Kenyon College, where I am currently employed, most of our readings are held at Finn House, the gingerbread-esque cottage that…
