We appear to be the happy operators of a menagerie! At a reading in Chicago on Tuesday, January 8th, an elderly gentleman concluded the night’s comments by saying that he had never heard of George Saunders until a few days earlier, but the New York Times’ review*’s claim was too substantial to deny. So, he […]
Where can the Anobium staff obtain these death metal Grammy nominee shirts? This is urgent. “Likewise, Butterball has feelings for Nia, but they remain pretty childlike, which seems unlikely for a typical 13-year-old. Anger about, and because of, sexuality is a subtext throughout the book, but 50 Cent is unwilling to bring it to the […]
Bulletpoint’d review of Aleksandar Hemon’s new book, The Book of My Lives, now commencing: —Most of the stories in this book have been previously published in other outlets (the New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney’s, etc.) over the past few years. But that doesn’t actually make this book this book any less cohesive. In fact, excepting a few […]
Seeking applicant for dream job: want to be official pot consultant to the state of Washington? Unseen for eons, witness these full-color photographs of 1900s France. From the child’s mouth: Pola Kinski to write a memoir about the savage abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, Klaus Kinski. In Paris, there is a […]
Geoffrey Todd Smith is a visual artist living in Chicago. Originally from Cleveland, he graduated from the School of the Art Institute with a BFA in 1995 and headed an hour west to DeKalb to attain his MFA from Northern Illinois University. His work focuses on dense, pattern-based motifs that generate a gravitational pull. The […]
