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Bots that seek out your textual emotion
New Aesthetics artist and programmer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has created Twitter bots to seek our textual emotion following a very simple rule...
This is not a normal tribute to Sendak
Sendak was a brooding, moody, bitchy man at times; he suffered and ailed and wept and laughed and created child-noir with real messages. I loved him for it.
And So It Goes: A Review
Scholar and author Braham Dabscheck reviews Charles Shield's "And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life."
Familiar and alien: Plummer-Fernandez and the New Aesthetic
Designer, artist, fabricator, and programmer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez offers some great discourse on the New Aesthetic.
An Abundance of Porn in Your Trash: epub #3
Can you find the art and literary might in today's digital trash? If so, you can submit to our next epub. See guidelines for details.
C. S. Lewis offers writing tips to a child
C. S. Lewis attempted to return every piece of mail he received. Here, via Letters of Note, he offers great writing advice to a child (to us all, really).
Where writers sleep
The bedrooms of some of our most revered writers. Did their most intimate rooms have a direct influence on their work and lives?
Iambic tweets and sound art
Ranjit Bhatnagar has found a way to sift through millions of tweets each day to find poetic, iambic verse. Can we find poetry in meaningless speech?
Mark Morris, poetry, Beethoven, and dance
The Mark Morris Dance Group offers a lovely marriage of Irish and Scottish poetry, Beethoven, choreography, and subtle stagecraft in "The Muir."
Mike Daisey and Spalding Gray
Mike Daisey refuses to be responsible for his lying. But, more interestingly, have you ever noticed the similarities between Daisey and Spalding Gray?
TAL retracts story after serious reporting flaws emerge
This American Life retracts a story after real journalism uncovers a "monologist's" partial fiction.
The Last Boy: A Review
Dabscheck cleverly shows us how 3+4=7 in not only mathematical terms, but in baseball, as he reviews Leavy's "The Last Boy."
Hard work and heartbreaks: African American lit
Several industry luminaries examine individual notes on African American literature for Black History Month.
