did anyone else

hear the interview today with Marie Howe on Fresh Air? "Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die." And she read this.

the past

is always conversing with the future. Siddartha Mukherjee

state of the re:union

Amazing series by PRX. KQED played this one on Bayard Rustin tonight.

turned out via horse hunting

In 1950, while accepting the Nobel Prize for literature, William Faulkner contended that there is one, and only one, subject worth writing about: the human heart in conflict with itself. Maud Newton on Deborah Eisenberg for NPR. And more from Maud in 2010

Photo: Turned Out via Horse Hunting

as far as I'm concerned

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." Patti Smith. I can't stop stop thinking about a recent NPR story on gender identity in the lives of two children and their families. Listen here. Photo by Annie Leibovitz.