31 YEARS OF THE ARTIST’S VOICE
LITERATURE
“THE DEATH OF LITERATURE,” OR SOMETHING: BRANDON SCOTT GORRELL
by Jun 24, 2009
Emily Nonko interview Muumuu House poet Brandon Scott Gorrell.
ART
THE REGULARS BY SARAH STOLFA
by Sep 28, 2009
There’s a frustration I face with modern photography—glossy spreads in magazines and head shots and landscapes. With the advent of Photoshop, everything just looks too perfect.
LITERATURE
SHOPLIFTING FROM ANN BEATTIE: AN INTERVIEW WITH TAO LIN
by May 11, 2009
Emily Nonko interviews writer, blogger, and poet Tao Lin.
ART
MAKING GOOD: JONATHON KEATS
by Sep 04, 2009
Keats’ work creates an absurd world that may be uncomfortable to visit, but forces us to examine our own in an entirely new context. Emily Nonko puts the questions to the quester.
LITERATURE
JOHN JODZIO READERS DIGESTION
by Mar 19, 2010
In this wonderfully surprising, playful and stirring book, Jodzio introduces a gallery of offbeat characters forced to navigate the dire situations and trials presented by life.
LITERATURE
STEPHEN ELLIOT
by Sep 30, 2009
The Adderall Diaries, a nonfiction work written by Stephen Elliott and out this month, is not a book about Adderall. And though Elliott’s intent was to focus on the murder trial of Hans Reiser, It really isn’t even a book
LITERATURE
MICHAEL IDOV
by Jul 27, 2009
Michael Idov has accomplished three things I have, at some point in my life, wanted to do: he is a features writer at New York Magazine, he wrote a book, and he opened a coffee house on the Lower East Side.
LITERATURE
DANIEL NESTER
by Dec 18, 2009
Daniel Nester is the kind of writer who looks at his book as an opportunity to be honest with you, and hopefully make you laugh. Which I did, while reading his latest book, How to Be Inappropriate, just out this past fall.
MUSIC
CONEY ISLAND PERFORMERS KEEP THE FREAKINESS ALIVE
by Mar 09, 2009
Coney Island Circus Sideshow and Hungry March Band bring their crazy, freaky, fun performance to Manhattan.
LITERATURE
LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS BY LYDIA MILLET
by Oct 07, 2009
In Lydia Millet’s new short story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys, she treats animals as rock star characters, paralleling them with real-life celebrities to create stories both eccentric and, in unexpected ways, honest.
LITERATURE
THE EXQUISITE CORPSE?: 'LACAN AT THE SCENE' BY HENRY BOND
by Feb 05, 2010
How to consider the space captured in a photograph, and what can we consider truth within an image? In a photograph my image exists outside of my physical body but does my body still live in a photograph? When applied to the photography of dead bodies, specifically crime scene photography, these questions take an interesting turn.