To insert an expletitive into the phrase “My Bloody Valentine” would be redundant, but don’t let that diminish the importance of their new bloody album. It’s about bloody time! Maurice Sendak’s final book, brimming with begrudged tenderness. Three! New!! Plath bios!!! Valentine’s Day is almost here. If you can’t afford to take your significant other […]
My friends in The Broken Bicycles have a new EP called Physics of Sound. Though some tracks are streaming now, a new world is just on the horizon. With a holiday show, this batch of reworked songs are coming out on Valentine’s Day, and for those who think they know the band, they’ll want to […]
“Don’t ask what I’d like to do to [Gene] Kelly with that stupid umbrella,” and more One Star Netflix Reviews. “For my next trick,” says Joseph Cornell, or Vladimir Nabokov, or Wes Anderson, “I have put the world into a box.” Your Poet: dispensable advice from a master (written, to this editor’s delight, by an […]
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 […]
