At McSweeney’s: “A GREAT JOB OPPORTUNITY!” (Funnier/sadder if you’re jobless right now.)
A Laugh for the Jobseeker
Cleaved in Two
"As I let the shotgun drop the butt hit the bricks and the second shell fired into me..." This excerpt from Homero Airdjis's upcoming The Child Poet, is fraught with elements of tension and discovery. Something of a künstlerroman, the book tracks Airdjis's artistic and poetic development from his boyhood through the present day.
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The Unbearable Finitude of Reading
Beginning with the same premise—one can only read so many books in a given lifetime—two authors write very different articles: Maria Bustillos lists the recommendations of George Orwell, Henry Miller, and John Waters that she's followed in an effort to maximize her short reading life. Marc Wortman wonders if authors are being paid by the page and, given our short lives, whether we should even bother with the behemoth volumes coming out recently.
The Gallery of Lost Art
The Gallery of Lost Art is “an online exhibition that tells the stories of artworks that have disappeared,” and my-oh-my is it a doozy of an internet diversion.
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The Rooster Bequeathed
In a real nail-biter, the winner of this year's Tournament of Books is...
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Beer is a beer is a beer is a beer
"There is no use no use at all in smell, in flavor, in taste, in anything, there is no use at all and the lack of respect is mutual. More, that is more, yes. But what I want is less." Gertrude Stein reviews Bud Light Lime and other beers at The Rumpus' Funny Women Column.
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It’s Not “Roses Are Red?”
What's the most quoted line of poetry? The answer, according to Google and M.H. Forsyth, may surprise you.
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YA Gay
Two American YA authors, Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith, were asked to "straighten" gay characters. Here is the rebuttal that followed.
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Not Terribly Different from some real media job listings I’ve seen that want 1 to have the skills of 3 or 4. Some are desperate enough to apply anyway.