Why I write for free

An essay by Benjamin Kunkel titled ‘Lingering’ appeared  in the most recent issue of the N1BR.  Notionally a review of three semi-recent books about online discourse, the essay functions as an accounting of the ways the Internet has failed to enrich both the author’s life and literary culture.  But Kunkel is not (wholly) a technophobe [...]

Feed me

I started a Tumblr about the situation in Iran.  Just kidding, I started a Tumblr about Things I Ate That I Love.  It exists to catalog and sometimes minorly analyze or contextualize the things I ate that I love.  It features blurry cell phone photos of same.  Sometimes there are also pictures of my cat [...]

Being good

I had been whimpering, collapsing into Bennett’s lap while quietly moaning “You guys this movie is breaking me,” and miming wrist-slashing actions for about an hour and, okay, I concede that none of that constitutes ideal movie-theater etiquette.  But it wasn’t as though I was chatting throughout the movie or shouting things at the screen.  [...]