Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...written a bit about Achebe and the Heinemann series here, so I won't repeat myself. Suffice it to say that while the "African Writers Series" and Achebe tended to define,...
Freedom Industry
...for humans." Freedom means this happens constantly, a little bit. Freedom means sometimes it happens a great deal. We have more questions. But Freedom means we're done. http://vimeo.com/83906115 ...
No, You're Already Pretty
...Thanks to everyone who entered the Already Pretty giveaway! I went numerically-chronologically, starting with the-beheld.com, then e-mail entries from readers understandably frustrated by the Blogger comment system, then...
How to Win Tinder
...such as Match.com or eHarmony require. There is no “matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.” You are your own matchmaker. And because Tinder is so streamlined and visual it can...
Growing Up TV
...careers that have frankly lost a bit of their former luster, the show is actually one of the least offensive members of the august genre of celeb-reality. And even as...
No Kings of New York
...nine months later, you say them a little different, you come at a bit of a different angle, and you hope that a bit of that anger has cooled....
(Some Provisional Writing on) Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project"
...talk) and a bit of exploratory writing, to--in a burst of modest idealism about Scholarly Community--open up the process of writing a bit to see what happens. Any and all...
Let's Tell This Story
...This Story Properly,” which recently won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. But I want to first tell you a little bit about why it’s unfortunate that you can’t read this...
Violent Motion, 1
...the Specter of Lynching," in A Companion to Early Cinema. Gaudreault, André, Nicolas Dulac, and Santiago Hidalgo, eds. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 So in a film from the last years...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...another into a conjunction, a relationship, an argument, and a story—and so the “cut” between what’s happening in the country and almost any bit of text we might come across...
Launching a Book Into the Birthgrave
...60, 70 years, instead say, ‘Well, if we suture this bit of junk to this bit of junk, we’ve got a Gatling gun. That’s awesome.’ That was the idea. It...
Just Another Princess Movie
...it’s not predictable, it’s not Just Another Princess Movie, and it’s not — my God! — lacking for deeper layers. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. Insofar as Pixar...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.23.12
...not so much that we should all wear lab coats all the time (though JustLabCoats.com may persuade you otherwise) but rather that the idea of "dress for success" might have...
Look What You Did, You Little Jerk
...bit scared. “I made my family disappear,” he says to himself, in the cavernous house he’s been stranded in. It takes him only a second to realize the repercussions of...
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
Contexts and Perspective
...delicate male ego to have it suggested that anything I do is other than wholly perfect. But after a bit of reflection, I don’t have much cause to complain. After...