Odds are, you don’t take enough time out of your day to appreciate the art of the pencil, your office’s most basic supply. Making up for the masses ...
In April of 2011, local author Ed Kurtz had a self-published debut novel to plug and a cranium full of ideas. By the end of the year, his novel, Bleed ...
"Gadfly. G-A-D-F-L-Y."
When was the last time you participated in an honest-to-goodness spelling academic spelling bee? Do you remember studying with flashcards in hopes of advancing? Or do you still ...
Why are the bleakest of literary landscapes sometimes the most fertile ground for comedy? This is a question I posed to a master of dystopian satire, novelist Gary Shteyngart, the ...
Regular readers of CultureMap’s Literature section will recall that, last fall, we excerpted local writer Nick Courtright’s Punchline, a collection of poems inspired by classic quotes and written ...
