Asem’s memoir of detainment is new from Perfect Day Publishing.
Pauls Toutonghi to Discuss 1986 Mt. Hood Tragedy on Think Out Loud Tuesday
His article on the OES disaster appears in the current issue of Outside magazine.
For Improved Mood, Gaze Upon These Balloon Fiesta Photos
By Alan Limnis
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta delivers.
Shitty Diapers
By Noah Powell
When help isn’t helping.
Getting to the Next Level
Independent filmmaker Brian Padian, who at a Propeller event last spring discussed his debut feature film The Black Sea, is in the midst of a campaign to raise funds to make his next movie, Sister/Brother. As a continuation of that previous conversation, Padian chatted via email about what he has been up to since last spring, how pre-production on Sister/Brother is going, and how he chose his fundraising platform.
Building Meaning at the Mixing Board
Dan DeWeese chats with Cheston Knapp about his essay collection Up Up, Down Down.
Eating Flies
By Carol Fischbach
Getting to a place where I considered my body a sacred space was difficult after being raised Catholic and having an angry, depressed mother. Mostly, I just knew that I didn’t want to swallow a fly.
Milk and Motherhood
By Sheila Heti and Dorothea Lasky
The novelist Sheila Heti and the poet Dorothea Lasky spoke over email for several weeks about their new books, Motherhood (Henry Holt) and Milk (Wave Books). Heti is the author of seven previous books, including the 2012 novel How Should a Person Be? which was a New York Times Notable Book and was called by Time magazine “one of the most talked-about books of the year.” Lasky is the author of four previous full-length collections of poetry, including ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton) and Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all from Wave Books.
Nobody's Hero
By Dan DeWeese
Blow-Up is more relevant now than it was in 1966.
Entire Life in a First Line
By Patrick McGinty
Judging a student poetry competition helps clarify the importance of newsroom diversity.
She Selected Herself
By Dan DeWeese
Citizenfour’s cinematic ancestors are not documentaries. Fahrenheit 451 is not about books. The current definition of “secret” appears to be “something everyone already knows and tolerates.”
Bad Connections
By Dan DeWeese
The novels of Renata Adler.