My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.
Once in a while we like to give a shout out to some of the great work Poptenners come out with.. And today we’ve definitely got reason to celebrate because the Jasons (otherwise known as Reynolds and Griffin) officially have
Like riding a bike…
Everyone’s favorite “thug-life” poet, Nikki Giovanni, is back with an awesome collection of love poems, Bicycles. I must admit that her last project, Acolytes, I wasn’t really a fan of. She was using an interesting, new style that involved way
Sentential Hypertrophy: Inflating Your Sentences to Ludicrous Lengths
John August, possibly my favorite blogger, pointed to this amazing set of instructions by James Tanner for turning any normal sentence into a David Foster Wallace super-sentence. I know we have some real DFW fans in the PopTen house,
Book Swim: Netflix For Books!
I just received an email from Oprah.com (whoever put me on her mailing list, I’ll find you) titled “Books On a Budget.” What a fantastic idea for an email! I spend way too much money on books! Remember when DVDs
The Devastating Sentences of Gary Lutz
Gary Lutz is not a well-known fiction writer, and barring some massive, unprecedented shift in consumer taste, will never be famous. He doesn’t seem to be reclusive – there are a few interviews available online – but the number of
I am in Here: Ten Memorable First-Person Narrators
First-person narration is a tricky art. If a writer has the ability to transfer a character’s unfiltered thoughts to the page, how does he or she know when to shut the hell up? How many this-is-what-I-think-of-smoked salmon/winter mornings/Black Sabbath digressions
Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell Changes the World
I’m sure most of you have read The Tipping Point or Blink, arguably the Harry Potter series for the over-twenty set. I started my Gladwellian voyage years ago with Blink, which was devoured mostly on a subway, and a few
Hip Hop Lyrics Found In Great Literature
There’s nothing I love more than finding a passage in Shakespeare or Moby Dick that I’ve heard before in a hip hop song. What better proof that all ideas are recycled, translated for the current generation? Dr. Dre? Quoting
Cocktail Crashers Vol. V: The True Story of Moby Dick
I’m not going to front. I fucking LOVE Moby Dick. It’s probably my second favorite book (after East of Eden, of course). The trick is to skip the nautical chapters and stick to getting inebriated off the prose, starting
HBO Greenlights RR Martin’s GAME OF THRONES, son!
Winter is coming, my friends. While speculation that HBO would be bringing “A Song of Ice and Fire” – George R.R. Martin’s epic (and as yet unfinished) fantasy series – to life has been circulating for well over a year
