Sorry, I lied. The new library website has nothing to do with zombies or vampires. Zero, nada, nil. But seriously, how much attention would you give to a blog post […]
Readers as Illustrators
Human beings are hard-wired to rely on visual perception; perhaps this explains why we really, really like to look at pictures. And when we read, we often want to see […]
Murder in the Archives
Hey all you fictioneers: I’m waiting with bated breath to read a book with the above title. Please, can someone write it? Of course, an archive is in many ways […]
Gertrude Stein, Emperor of the Avant-Garde… and Its Aftermath
A funny thing happened on the way to the twentieth century. Literary conventions, along with the artistic conventions native to most forms, came under attack. Anti-convention campaigns across the globe […]
Happy DH Day
Yesterday, March 27, was this year’s “Day of DH.” D what? DH, stands for digital humanities. (More on what that actually means below.) And “Day of DH” is a day of, well, documentation and […]
Flockophobic Press
“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” That’s the well-known […]
Early Photography
It might be impossible for us to imagine a world without photography. We take pictures instead of notes, and place more faith in them than we do our own memories. Photographs have […]
Langston Hughes: From The Weary Blues to Black Muse
Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902—110 years ago today. It’s only a coincidence that his birthday inaugurates Black History Month, but to me the timing has always seemed like […]
Get Thee to the Baltimore Writers’ Conference
A copyright lawyer, a magazine editor, an independent publisher and a mystery writer walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “Is this some kind of a joke?” “No,” […]
Poets of the Great War
Veterans Day, as you may know, used to be called Armistice Day; November 11 was officially designated such by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 to honor the cessation of hostilities […]