Bookish

In the last few years Dave Eggers has been turning over novels quicker than most bands turn over albums. In 2012 he released [title shall

Nick Sturm’s chapbook Beautiful Out isn't about the recent arrival of sunny spring weather. It’s about feelings. It’s one thing to be a confused soul

John Waters of the eternal pencil mustache wrote an autobiographical collection of essays called Role Models, which came out in 2011 and has had everyone

Ryan Russell might be this country's preeminent rock photographer, though living in Birmingham, AL, he's probably slipped your radar even if you've assuredly seen his

February, a bleak month, brief on paper only, was especially fraught this time around, in no small part because of extreme weather. Letters of Note,

1. Anton Chekhov said, “Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil”; the best can actually collapse the horse,

1. Discounting profit margins, 2013 was a good year for print, and, especially for that willful fringe-dweller, the literary magazine. Some of the most exciting

1. HTML Giant editor, VICE writer, and gourmand Blake Butler wrote a piece called “How is literary success defined” for Atlanta's Creative Loafing. It's an

Introducing a new monthly column from Jacob Kaplan—writer, teacher, editor of Sporadicus Mag—on what's going on in the literary world that you might have missed

I read this great old sci-fi story where the author described his main character as, “someone for whom life was difficult to the point of