“Safety isn’t guaranteed by where earth is in its turning, god knows she’s learned that, if nothing else.” – Beth Gilstrap, ‘There Is News Along The Ohio River’ Form—who cares […]
Friday Links: A Nation Made Of Mango Streets Edition
“Then as if she forgot I just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad.” – Sandra Cisneros, ‘The House On Mango Street’ Another Friday Links that I’m pre-writing. […]
Friday Links: Mind Yr Business, Make A Better World Edition
“City magic is liminal. It likes the hidden stories, the perceptual-conceptual shifts, the space between metaphor and reality.” – N.K. Jemisin, ‘The World We Make’ Hello from Baltimore! Or maybe […]
Friday Links: Cities Are Great Edition
“Bronca likes this view, though, because it makes clear that New York is a city of people, not its businesses and landmarks…they all gotta eat, educate their kids, sleep, and […]
Friday Links: Not In The Mood For Conversation Edition
“The indifference is impenetrable and reliable and distributed across centuries, and I am stupidly hurt when my friends can’t see that.” – Claudia Rankine, “tiki torches” It’s a week where […]
Friday Links: The Future, and Basketball, Are Worth Fighting For Edition
“so, who am I if not the rain? / at once welcoming & // un-welcomed” – upfromsumdirt, “‘Sometimes It Snows In…’ (Well, You Know The Rest)” First things first: new […]
Friday Links: What We Listen To When We Listen To Music Edition
“I have witnessed a Fuck U Pay Us show, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it ever since. Black people shouting because…there is no other volume […]
Friday Links: How Music Works Edition
“A host of factors contribute to making the experience of live music a far from objective phenomenon.” – David Byrne, ‘How Music Works’ Don’t usually title the whole column with […]
Friday Links: Rebel Without A River Edition
“Who were they / those men darkening // the barnmouth, / leaning like that” – Joe Wilkins, “Evening Elegy” Goofy month for titles, it seems. Well, it will make sense […]
Friday Links: I Thought Your Name Was Todd Edition
“Maybe I would’ve gone about it less bluntly, or somehow differently. But not much, not much differently.” – Michelle Cruz Gonzalez, ‘The Spitboy Rule” They’re calling it “my most doesn’t […]