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BURN PILE: Card catalogs, hungover bears, and “snowfalling” Dave Eggers
Photo via Creative Commons Submit to The Woodshop! Along with submissions for our print journal, CutBank wants contributions for a few new online features. One, The Woodshop, is a collection of...
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BURN PILE: Kafka, writing about sex, and Sam Shepard on e-mail
Kafka image via Creative Commons Fear and self-loathing in Kafka: John Banville reviews three Franz Kafka biographies for the New York Review of Books and looks for keys that might unlock the secret to...
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CUTBANK REVIEWS: My Funeral Gondola by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
My Funeral Gondola By Fiona Sze-Lorrain Manoa Books/ El Leon Literary Arts, 2013 Review by Christina Cook Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s latest collection of poetry, My Funeral Gondola, is threaded through with...
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BURN PILE: Auto-autonyms, dinosaur erotica, and Charles Simic on the shutdown
The auto-autonyms, the overused, and the maladapted: Brad Leithauser searched for a synonym for “unfathomable,” and instead returned with a list of unusable words. There are the “structurally...
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BURN PILE: Morrisey’s autobiography an instant classic?
Via Creative Commons “We hate it when our friends become successful.” And what of our Moz? The peerlessly wry Smiths frontman and solo artist recently published his autobiography on the Penguin...
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SECOND WIND: Listen to Rachel Mindell and Kim Bell read
Every week we record Second Wind for the listening pleasure of those who weren’t able to make it in person. In anticipation of tonight’s reading, here are the vocalizations of Rachel Mindell and Kim...
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BURN PILE: CutBank’s 40th anniversary, the “ancient longings” of letters
Via Creative Commons Lordy, lordy… CutBank celebrates its 40th anniversary tomorrow night at Heritage Hall. (Map) Snag hors d’oeuvres and cocktails from Montgomery Distillery starting at 6pm, and...
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BURN PILE: Writing by Ouija, female novelists on Wikipedia, literary sibling...
Via Creative Commons We’ve got spirits, yes we do: Have a few questions about your future as a writer? At the Smithsonian Magazine, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie follows the history of the Ouija Board, and...
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BURN PILE: Saving daylight, writing with bears, Nonrequired Reading nod
Via Creative Commons Hands across America: Before Daylight Savings Time was implemented as we now know it, the Committee for Time Uniformity surveyed hundreds of populous cities to better quantify how...
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BURN PILE: Sontag uncut, mockingbirds & museums, and rejecting Lolita
Susan Sontag. Photo via Creative Commons Sontag, uncut: Jonathan Cott’s 138-page interview with Susan Sontag, published at a fraction of its length in Rolling Stone in 1979, is now available in its...
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BURN PILE: In praise of polymaths, dogfooding, and tippling with Faulkner
Via Creative Commons “The more fields of knowledge you cover, the greater your resources for improvisation.” At Aeon, Robert Twigger praises polymaths, describes why industrialization and divisions of...
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BURN PILE: Marianne Moore’s car names, Dorothy Parker’s “Lolita,” and...
Via Creative Commons “Our dilemma is a name for a rather important series of new cars.” A job for Marianne Moore, perhaps? In a series of letters with Ford’s Marketing Research Department, the poet...
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Celebrating Greta Wrolstad
Please join us in celebrating Greta Wrolstad this coming week. Greta was an MFA student at the University of Montana and a Poetry Editor at Cutbank Magazine. She died tragically in a car accident in...
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BURN PILE: Kafka, writing about sex, and Sam Shepard on e-mail
Kafka image via Creative Commons Fear and self-loathing in Kafka: John Banville reviews three Franz Kafka biographies for the New York Review of Books and looks for keys that might unlock the secret to...
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THE WOODSHOP: Andy Hobin
CutBank continues its new online feature, The Woodshop, with this submission from Andy Hobin. Review our submission guidelines here, then submit your own Woodshop to cutbankonline@gmail.com. Where do...
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BURN PILE: C.S. Lewis’s T.S. Eliot impression, Ploughshares’ memoir tips, more
T.S. Eliot, via Creative Commons “My soul is a windowless facade.” In a Poetry Foundation article about C.S. Lewis’ ill-fated poetry efforts, Laura Mallonee writes that Lewis and friends once tried to...
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BURN PILE: George Saunders and Charlie Brown, John Steinbeck’s two Christmases
George Saunders, via Creative Commons “Merry Christmas, George Saunders.” Roman Mars’ excellent 99% Invisible podcast traced the origin of the Geico “Caveman” ad campaign to George Saunders’...
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BURN PILE: Ben Lerner on vandalism and art; Slate on unacknowledged...
“Tumbler.com looks fucking stupid.” Fare thee well, E! (Or, alternately, “Far th wll!”) Image via Creative Commons When visual aesthetics bury letters: “The letter E was born in the late 8th century BC...
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BURN PILE: The “When Books Read You!” Edition
Via Creative Commons Mining data through e-readers: At The New York Times, David Streitfeld profiles a few online businesses that track e-reader data, from Amazon and Barnes & Noble down to Scribd...
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BURN PILE: New Year’s Resolutions from Montana MFAs
Now that our champagne bottles are empty and we’ve worked that particular pre-midnight guilty pleasure out of our heads, we at CutBank figure we have another 51 weeks or so to honor our best...
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