Monthly Archives: August 2010

Broken Pencil reviews How to Be Inappropriate: “a thoroughly enjoyable read.”

Check it out here. Sometimes I think we should have picked a different cover, since so many reviews tend to focus on how the cover gives off a more inappropriate vibe than the writing.  Then I scratch myself somewhere all … Continue reading

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Dear Yvette and Yvette’s Revenge. NSFW. Yo.

There were two response records to this. Anyone know the other one? Link?

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Very tan, half-baked: rooming house in Ocean City, NJ, summer of 1989.

From a lost roll of film that old friend Dan Long is scanning ever so slowly.  Some observations: Wow. Look how tan I am.  This is the famed Summer I Was More Tan Than My Sister, which I mention here. “You … Continue reading

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Nice quote from Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager.

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More notes about or against the lyric essay; in which your plucky correspondent is asked questions about his reservations on a certain made-up literary form. (via We Who Are About To Die.)

I wrote this up really quick a couple days ago, and I’d be remiss not to link to it over here. Last week, a college student named Jordan Baum sent me some questions about my thoughts on the lyric essay. … Continue reading

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