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Rumpus + On Being Edited

I’ve been doing a lot of book reviews for The Rumpus lately, which I’ve come to enjoy much more than I expected. Its great: I read free books, talk to authors, etc. But one of the most rewarding parts is working with books editor Andrew Altschul, who aside from being a badass writer, is the [...]

Call + Response Response

As the people at brightestyoungthings can attest, there were oceans of people at Call + Response over the weekend. It was pretty amazing. They’ve got a bunch of pics. Here are the ones I have anything to do with:

Above is part of the tremendous installation Bryan Rojsuontikul did in response to a cleaned-up and revamped version [...]

Two Whole Public Appearances This Week. Worst Hermit Ever.

After four months of solitude and whatnot, this January has me out among the herds in a way that makes me seem far more extroverted than is personally accurate. In the first two weeks of this month I read some new stuff with some pals at 826DC, and lectured a bunch of Hopkins pre-med geniuses [...]

Call & Response: This Thing I’m Doing With People I Know

Come January, I’ll be taking part in a sort of high-minded thumbwrestling match between visual art and the textual kind called Call & Response, which is being curated by PIKs Kira Wisniewski and William Bert. It works like this: a bunch of writers write some things, and a bunch of visual artists create work in [...]

Adios, DC (For a Little While) + Hello, PA + PIK News

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Tomorrow morning I drive up to Lewisburg, PA for “four months of unfettered writing time” that I have been very much looking forward to since I found out about it in May.
The *plan* is to be as scarce as possible as I try to put [...]