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November 24, 2014With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part IV)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part IV) Paloma asks me questions and I respond like a mid-September Virgo. Mat makes an observation which the entire conversation ribbons itself around. ...
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November 23, 2014With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part III)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part III) Paloma, Mat and I reflect on the wisdom of being a dummy. The views expressed in the Writer-in-Residence blogs are those held by the authors and ...
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November 23, 2014With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part II)
With Mat and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part II) Fred Moten teleports into my living room during the second part of my convo with Mat and Paloma. The views expressed in the Writer-in-Residence blogs are ...
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November 22, 2014With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I) On Halloween afternoon 2014, Mat Laporte and Paloma came to my house, sat on my daybed, and we laughed so loud, fair listeners, that this podcast ...
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November 20, 2014With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part III)
With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part III)In the third and final installment of my conversation with Evan, we find out what the deal is with him wearing ties all the time, as well as discover how ...
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November 19, 2014With Evan: The Great Unpacking (Part II)
With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part II)In the second part of my chat with Evan Munday, we consider the politics of niceness The views expressed in the Writer-in-Residence blogs are those held ...
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November 08, 2014A Terribly Inexpensive Friend
If you buy a second-hand book, it has a price and some degree of wear. This book was 48 cents.Many books, second-hand books, are crusty. That’s how come some people won’t buy them. People eat pizza ...
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October 19, 2014
On Writing, with Aisha Sasha John
Aisha Sasha John, our November 2014 writer-in-residence, has been called "a poet of centrifugal energy, of reverberant intimacy" (Michael Nardone).She's back this spring with her second book, the follow ...
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October 08, 2014Shifting Gears
Dear Open Bookers,It’s a pleasure to be this month’s Writer-in-Residence. I look forward to sharing thoughts and ideas with you over the coming weeks!Monday morning, I arrived at the Banff Centre ...
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September 30, 2014Eppur Si Muove / And yet It Moves
Eppur si muove. And yet it moves. This is what Galileo supposedly said, speaking of the earth, upon being found guilty of heresy in 1633 for promoting the Copernican model of heliocentricity. In its move ...