Shared by JeSais we were just talking about tweeting stories last night Brevity is suddenly feeling fat, or at least a bit wordy. Here’s the new lit mag on the block, making brief even briefer: escarp is a selective, Twitter-based review of brief (140 chars or less) poetry and prose (including fiction and nonfiction). Call it a Twitterature review: escar […]
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l'oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. Before: Lockheed camouflage - before. After: Lockheed camouflage - after. Lockheed camouflage - stre […]
The online journal Drunken Boat has recently released issue eleven, featuring essays under 1,000 words exploring how folks — in this worldwide financial crisis — cope with the end of the prolonged age of consumption. Here’s the opening from Cal Freeman’s excellent “Some Notes from Dearborn, MI”: We are the bellwether species, that frog with the extra leg in […]