You tell Jeff Bridges you fear your dying breath will be just like the whimper you make when... more

Although Woody Allen (Alvy Singer) might be the most adorable hipster on the face of the planet and I consider his... more

No one called it a plague at first.  We weren’t the kind of people who used words like that, words heavy with the suggestion of some greater force, but the idea was there, almost from the beginning, skittering around in the back of my head, peeking out into the light.

tell me, what are we looking for, don’t die right now

The table is in the room and the room has a table in it

At 32 she whistled for the first time and was alarmed by her talent.

For this non-reader spotlight, I talked to Sean Olumstad. Sean and I met as undergrad theatre majors at Illinois Wesleyan, but Sean made the wise move to pursuing a career in nursing.

On the day we come with Daddy down the mountain, Momma wakes us up early while Daddy's still asleep, pulls out white poster boards, markers from the closet, and together, we draw babies. Heads with black eyes, bodies curled, hands in mouths, a blue cord running from their bellies to somewhere off the page.

Here in the US, it’s often said that the best way to experience the so-called “real”... more

Because sharks mate / by just passing for a moment / before separating forever and / because his dog died...

A tiny husband lay in a pool of blood beneath him.

The first thing was, everybody’s voices changed. Not changed deeper, like puberty. This was changing back: they went high, squeaky,... more

Matthew Vollmer's newest book, Inscriptions for Headstones, is the kind of book that refreshingly resists categorization. Essays, fiction, poems. The thirty short texts, each a single sentence... 

A well-respected, dignified president living a double-life as a slayer of the undead is actually a much... more

its dreams are a whetstone // it sharpens itself all night long.

Plates, large: Stack in bottom row.  Front side should face the rinse cylinder.  Do not face plates away from the rinse... more

Morgan Freeman makes me cry.

When I see them on Saturday in St. Louis, it will be the sixth time I will have seen Rush live, and I will have seen them in three different decades of my life – my 20s, 30s and 40s.

This month’s column was going to be about quitting my last job, but what’s... more

  Although Flight opens on a full-screen shot of a nipple, it quickly digresses into one of the most intense movie scenes... more

At a certain point, / no sex becomes a little Branch Davidian

He was her first virgin, and he waited to do it in a bed.

Sure, sometimes it’s better not to just come right out and say it, for instance “the unicorns” represent “the writing” and that “the unicorns” are the perfect symbol of “the writing’s magical, elusive, cunning, and enchanted nature.”

Ian’s mother warned him about jumping on the mattress.

We were taking shots at the bar before the bar, pre-gaming, game-facing. We did a round of jaeger bombs and Fixer knocked some dap and went outside for a smoke.

Texas gets a bad rap because it's filled with assholes, but really if you take any area the size of Texas anywhere it will be filled with assholes, because that's what people are.​

The night before you were born, your mother and I watched Knocked Up downstairs in the family room.

Rocky Horror Picture Show is probably the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever seen pass as a movie. Besides... more

The two of them are down on the riverbank, idling; their calico van sits arch-above.