Sweet show poster for a night of readings!
It’s nearly time! Tomorrow is SUPER SUPER TUESDAY.
Join us at the Nomad World Pub at 7 p.m. for readings by:
- Dessa
- Amelia Gray
- Lindsay Hunter
- Dylan Hicks
- John Jodzio
Unless someone digs up John Berryman’s grave and brings him back to life as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s opening act, this promises to be the best lineup of the year.
If you can’t make it out, you still CAN submit to our writing contest, judged by the fantabulous Amelia Gray. 800 words of fiction for a $500 prize. Details.
My Sommelier is a Comic: Saving the universe from killer robots, it turns out, is mere child’s play compared to the exquisite pleasures of savoring a 2001 Château Mont-Perat. That, perhaps, is one of the lessons to be taken away from the success of The Drops of God, a huge-selling manga, or comic, centered around wine tasting that has swept Japan by storm and is making inroads in many other countries, including the United States, where it was recently published by Vertical Inc.
In exchange for the return of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian captives last month. This week, New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren had illustrator Tim Enthoven draw every last one of them by hand for the cover, one of the most memorable and evocative of his tenure. (via New York Observer)
Inspired by an image of an Occupy Wall Street protester with a dollar bill covering his mouth, sketch artist Gary Bedard decided to draw his own versions of the image, calling the project “Ten Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators in Ten Days.” “The dollar bill speaks to ending silence on corporate greed, tax breaks for millionaires, and social injustice,” he said. “When I saw it, I thought—oh my god, that means everything. It says it all.”
