In the summer of 2013, a 26 year-old fortuneteller in New York City’s Times Square secured $2,500 for a consultation with a new client over his bout of lovesickness.
In the summer of 2013, a 26 year-old fortuneteller in New York City’s Times Square secured $2,500 for a consultation with a new client over his bout of lovesickness.
Longform writing 2015: Like many people, I spent a lot of time reading long articles last year.
In Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the Walt L. Shamel Community Garden sits on Dean Street in the neighborhood’s historic district, just east of an increasingly morphing, now heavily trafficked stretch of the nearby Franklin Avenue. A wave of new boutiques, bars, and even a Starbucks have opened in the area in recent years, an outgrowth of […]
Here is a look at some of the things that have kept me busy as a reader, listener of late. My “Clickable” posts are usually a load of hyperlinks, but I’m trying something a bit different this time around — there is hopefully more context or an appraisal where I felt I could add something, […]
Reading, reading, reading: A round-up of links to recent things I’ve read.
In late 2013, artist and writer Jess Ruliffson finalized work from an ongoing comics journalism project called Invisible Wounds, which is based on intimate discussions with veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After some delays on the production end, the 53-page “Space” issue of comics journalism tablet magazine Symbolia hit inboxes at the end of February. The theme is space this time around, particularly our relationship with outer space. Journalist/illustrator Roxanne Palmer explores black holes for the lead-off feature, and cites an experiment at China’s Nanjing University […]
Comics creator Brendan Leach is doing some stuff for Narratively, an online publication that produces impossibly beautiful visuals and deep longform storytelling. This story about a murder in New Orleans in 1913 looks fascinating — love the rendering of the tale’s centerpiece, a frighteningly close range gunshot, an understandably cowering bartender, the flames and red […]
Round-up of comics criticism and some magazine journalism stuff.
Some links worth passing along.