Underthings, and Other News
Busboys & Poets, the amazingly-named D.C. bookstore/cafe/performance space, is opening a sixth location! The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has named Samuel R. Delany the 2013...
View ArticleMiniature Books by the Brontës, and Other News
Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard University, via the Los Angeles Times. When Charlotte Brontë was thirteen and her brother, Branwell, was twelve, they designed and wrote a series of tiny books: “Measuring...
View ArticleThis Is Ourselves
Photo: Dave Tompkins The Trump sign stood offscreen in the scrub, appointed to an unfinished home on Tingler Avenue in Marathon, Florida. No roof, just scudding clouds framed by crossbeams. It was as...
View ArticleSpeak, Prairie Dog, and Other News
Sup, dog. People think they’re so special, with their tools and their language and their consciousness. “There’s nothing like us in the universe,” people say. “We’re people!” It’s enough to make you...
View ArticleThe More Ink, the Better, and Other News
A 2010 illustration by Karl Lagerfeld celebrating Gerhard Steidl. If I had me a printing press, here’s what I’d do: I’d stand by the machines all day as they spat out inky paper, and I’d close my...
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