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The Inkwell of Loneliness

by Jo Page February 22, 2012

I realize it’s Britainand they do things differently over there, but I found myself intrigued by a piece from The Guardian in which the author Teju Cole (Open City) selects his Top Ten novels of ...

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Brother, Can You Spare Some Time?

by Miriam Axel-Lute February 16, 2012

“As people become wealthier, time becomes their major scarce resource. Suppose that you are very rich but have only a few hours a week of spare time. Give some examples of steps you can take ...

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Pop Quiz

by Jo Page February 9, 2012

Every year, late January, I buy a desk calendar in which I record the names of agents I query, journals I send stuff off to over the next twelve months. To be perfectly honest, it ...

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Readying For Round Two

by Paul Rapp February 9, 2012

The dust is still settling from the epic defeat of SOPA/PIPA last month. Most major media outlets are still mischaracterizing it as a battle of Big Tech vs Big Media, which is a convenient way ...

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This is what happens when we let people run for office opposed. Consider yourself warned. Albany’s new county executive Dan McCoy—whom, for the record, I did not vote for despite his having no opponent, though I ...

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Big Win for the Open Internet

by Paul Rapp January 25, 2012

It’s incredibly rare these days when something good happens in Washington. Even more rare when it happens unexpectedly, spontaneously, and for the right reasons. But last Wednesday something really good happened in Washington. The SOPA/PIPA legislation, ...

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The House That I Live In

by Jo Page January 25, 2012

I’m always house-hunting. I don’t remember the exact number, but I’ve lived at more than thirty different addresses, including an apartment on York Street in Denver whose address was 1234. Our phone number was 0123. Locations ...

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Indians in the House

by Miriam Axel-Lute January 18, 2012

My older daughter has recently passed a major milestone: ability to handle any sort of plot tension. Not like we’re going in for scary movies or anything, but this does vastly increase the range of ...

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The Decency Effect

by Paul Rapp January 12, 2012

The Supreme Court is taking another whack at FCC vs. Fox , a case that’s been bungeeing around the courts for years. We’ve talked about the case here at least twice before. This time the ...

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The Doctor is Real In

by Jo Page January 12, 2012

I have just finished watching, over the course of a week, the 2005 season of Dr. Who. I didn’t do this voluntarily, of course. At least, not at first. I was cajoled, coerced and cornered ...

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New Year’s Permissions

by Miriam Axel-Lute January 5, 2012

There are as many conflicting opinions on New Year’s Resolutions as there are on any other form of self-help or self-improvement. Which is to say, rather a lot of them. A quick survey shows that there ...

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Oh What a Year it Will Be!

by Paul Rapp December 29, 2011

Once again, I’m batting around .500 with my predictions for last year. Hank Jr. was bounced from Monday Night Football, but he wasn’t replaced by Kanye. Justin’s did threaten to stop booking jazz (again), but ...

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Savage Love

by Dan Savage December 21, 2011

My sexy GGG husband and I fuck a “good friend” semiregularly. He’s hot, young, and game to fuck about every other week. We started out wearing condoms, but we’ve had the safe-sex conversation and our ...

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We Won’t Go

by Miriam Axel-Lute December 21, 2011

“Welcome here, or welcome not, old Father Christmas should never be forgot!” Where, you might ask might Father Christmas not be welcome? Perhaps if he is part of a rag-tag band of mummers, bringing a archetypal play ...

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The Adventures of Dick & VJ: “All Ye Faithful”

by John Rodat December 21, 2011

Narrator: Limber of limb, stout of heart, pure of intention and mind, our heroes roam the globe with their wise and sober mentor. In an era of vacuous pass-times, salacious entertainments and morally dubious diversions, ...

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The Art, the Deal, and the Drama

by Paul Rapp December 14, 2011

There’s a fascinating drama playing out right now in Albany County Supreme Court. The Daughters of Mary, a group of nuns associated with the St. Joseph’s Church and Convent in Roundtop, have sued Albany art ...

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Savage Love

by Dan Savage December 14, 2011

I’m a man who recently started seeing a wonderful woman. Like me, she’s divorced. While my ex-wife left me for another man, my girlfriend’s ex-husband was controlling and abusive. Our relationship is the opposite—emotionally, psychologically, ...

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Wonderful Christmastime

by Jo Page December 14, 2011

All these people who try new things at Christmas? I don’t get it. ’Tis just not the season. Christmas is not the time for innovation. It’s the time for repetition. Doing things the same old way ...

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Savage Love

by Dan Savage December 8, 2011

I’m a happily married woman. I have a great sex life with my husband of many years. He’s helped me discover things I didn’t know about myself sexually. The problem: Three years ago, my first ...

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Fragments From Two Guys With Prostheses

by John Rodat December 7, 2011

Peg Leg Aye, two score years adrift ’round the watery world, and not three amidst spent complete on dry land. Transhumeral Myoelectric U3+ It was late summer of ‘05. Bummer, too: Ending up missing Trey’s first solo tour. Peg ...

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Fix It First

by Miriam Axel-Lute December 7, 2011

Our car died this weekend. Blessedly, it chose a few blocks from home to do it, leading only to a Saturday night wrong-side-of-the-street parking ticket rather than a highway-side-with-two-kids drama. It was the hybrid mechanism itself ...

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Simmer Down

by Paul Rapp December 1, 2011

A few months ago, we talked about how an arm of the Department of Homeland Security was getting judges to sign orders allowing for the seizure of Internet domains that appeared to be trading in ...

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Seductive Shopping

by Jo Page November 30, 2011

Last December I was living in the small seaside town of Rockport, Mass., where Santa arrives by Coast Guard boat and is transported down Bearskin Neck in a vintage fire truck so he can light ...

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Things Fall Apart

by Miriam Axel-Lute November 22, 2011

To the news hound it may seem that the hardest harvest is consequence: the richly deserved chicken slaughtered on her roost, the open-pollinated burrs of hypocrisy and insincerity, the mortar-eating ivy that can’t tear down the master’s house fast enough. But ...

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Our Own Worst Enemy

by Jo Page November 22, 2011

In Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Zone One, main character Mark Spitz is one of an armed team of “sweepers” tasked with taking out any stragglers found in lower Manhattan south of Canal Street: Zone One. ...

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