Robinson Alone and Kees Remembered: An Interview with Author Kathleen Rooney
Literature and art and music have a long and storied (sordid?) history of key characters offing themselves ingloriously, with the strange effect that sometimes this offing increases their legend, and thus, the profundity and damage of their work, to previously unthinkable levels. Consider the cases of Hemingway, Van Gogh, and Cobain for a top-level sampler … Read more
Mother Ginger and The Nutcracker: An Interview with Jenna Bush Hager
Every year at the Long Center is one of the most worthwhile pieces of what some would call “high culture” Christmas tradition. The long-running and always fantastic Nutcracker, the Tchaikovsky-scored piece featuring such awesome characters as Clara and The Mouse King, is something everyone should see at least once. This past weekend, the non-dancing role … Read more
Discovering the Afterlife and the Democracy of 7-Eleven: An Interview with Poet Dorothea Lasky
Some of the greatest, most insightful, most dangerous, and most damn interesting writing happening in today’s world gets lost in the din of the complicated messes we call lives. But some of this just can’t stay under the radar forever, and large among those cases is that of Dorothea Lasky, a spicy and daring writer … Read more
A Feature Interview with Michael Pollan, Best-Selling Author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Other Great Books
There’s no shortage of great nonfiction books, but not too often does an author have a significant and identifiable effect on the way people think about something they do every single day. But Michael Pollan‘s decade-long investigation of all angles of the food “situation,” from the industrial, organic, and sustainable food chain in the profound … Read more
Divine Fits and Substitute Teaching: An Interview with Spoon’s Britt Daniel
Spoon is the epitome of a sure thing. Every couple years they release a new album of understated pop songs that, like clockwork, find themselves acting as the soundtrack for that year. Transference: 2010. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 2007. Gimme Fiction: 2005. Hell, when Pitchfork recently did a piece on the ten year anniversary … Read more
