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?

Word of That Day: 1800s Slang

Some excerpts of the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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.

Love as an artifact letter

History. Love. Letters. Artifacts of expression. Three stories.