The Spoils of Saint Hubris
One of the founding advisers of Broad Street, Sterling Hundley is an award-winning artist and associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Hundley has won numerous awards for his work, including gold medals for “Death of a Salesman” and “Shipwrecked,” as well as being featured in various private collections and...
Celebrating (again): Contributor Paisley Rekdal wins the 2013 Rilke Prize. Here’s a little more about her.
Updated in June 2018: Poet and essayist Paisley Rekdal, who contributed to our “Dangerous Territory” issue, adds yet another honor to a list the now includes an astounding collection of honors and awards, including (now) the über-important Rilke Award and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, Pushcart...
The Laurels of Lake Constance
The Paris Review interviewed Marie Chaix, author of several novels, including The Laurels of Lake Constance and Silences, or a Woman’s LIfe. The article addresses everything from her many novels to her painful discovery of her father’s secret past as “the right-hand man of pro-German Fascist collaborator Jacques Dorio.” Check out the interview here.
The String Theory
In honor of what would have been the 51st birthday of award-winning author David Foster Wallace, check out one of our favorite short essays of his, “The String Theory”. Originally published in the July 1996 issue of Esquire, the piece is “an obsessive inquiry (with footnotes) into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.” Read the full...
