• Good God Yes. Yes. Say it with me. Yes.

          I’m not sure what kind of cosmic copulatory magic occurred to bring this baby into the world, but this whole album is the happy place I didn’t know existed. Enjoy.

  • Guest Fiction: Black Hole by Jon Alston

    Yellow-gray cereal rain; gentle chimes from the table; a glass bowl; half empty gallon, whole milk; white flood. He chews soggy, artificially flavored, wheat byproduct squares. Spoon grinds against the empty bowl. More cereal. And a small gift: transparent plastic wrapper, embedded between squares. Overflowing. Breakfast births a prize. Between fingers, he pulls it from …

  • An Open to Letter NPR

    Dear NPR, Last year I wrote an open letter to Ira Glass, host of ‘This American Life’, telling him why I listen to NPR without paying for it. Glass, in step with his colleagues at member stations across the nation, employed a tactic of sanctimonious chiding in an effort to convince non-paying listeners (like myself …

  • Novelty Part 1

    Some of this happened and some of this didn’t. It’s all true. I was reading the Paris Review for the first time. It was late and I was inebriated and enthralled with a long-unpublished interview they did with Ray Bradbury. As a lover of both sci-fi and superb writing in general, Bradbury is one of …

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