Some of you may know that my title comes from the 1976 film Network. The movie exposes the media’s failure to report how Americans really feel during times of war and upheaval and what they […]
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Really? No shortcut?
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” […]
Dancing Girl
Kristy Bowen is a talented poet, visual artist, and editor, and is dedicated to supporting the work of other women poets and artists. 12th Street: What was your inspiration for dancing girl press? Kristy Bowen: […]
Could It Be Writer’s Block?
Hypergraphia is the overwhelming urge to write. According to neurosurgeon Alice Flaherty, author of The Midnight Disease, this urge is triggered by changes in brainwave activity in the temporal lobe. Writers such as Dostoevsky and Lewis Carroll […]
Plumbing Further
My post last week, “Plumbing the Issues,” has raised what I think is a very welcome discussion because it is an important one. Two readers commented. The first discussed my remarks about people who I […]
A Diagonal Slice of New York
This week I had the good fortune of interviewing the editors at New York’s fabled website, overheardinnewyork.com. (OINY) My reasoning behind the choice came from the fact that it’s hugely popular (four million pagehits a […]
Leigh Stein Reads!
Leigh Stein, 12th Street Online’s very own poetry editor, will be reading tomorrow at the New York Society Library for the 13th Annual Amy Awards, at 6pm. You can find her here, a few of […]
Word v. Intent
It was only last Spring that Senator Obama enlightened us about the characteristics of Pennsylvanians, saying, “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the […]
Tao Lin vs. Hikikomori
Tao Lin is a prolific author, editor, and sometime Gawker rabble rouser. The Stranger calls him “a revolutionary.” 12th Street: You have two collections of poetry out, one novel, a collection of short stories, and […]
Everyone Wants A Swallow Of Fall
Friday, October 17, 2008 After my doctor’s appointment, I got on the train. (I had a biopsy done on my neck and now I must wait three days for the results.) I don’t want to […]