For a while, I wrote a column called “The Naked and the Read” about literary sex scenes for Bookslut. I wrote about Leonard Michaels and Mary Gaitskill and Breece D’J Pancake and...
Is it widely understood that the Neil deGrasse Tyson hands-up GIF means "that impresses the words out of me"?
It’s from his awed description of Isaac Newton’s early...
Cry Baby

I had the true and sincere pleasure to attend Pam Houston’s reading at The Tattered Cover tonight. If you aren’t familiar with her work, change that....
Overlook publisher Peter Mayer remembers “The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing,” Barney Rosset, who passed away this week.
“Grove in some ways was a master of achieving...
this is my favorite book of poetry
i thought it was long gone since i hadn’t seen it in years but it returned to me today