John Jeremiah Sullivan Explores the World of Massage
For this weekend’s read, we’re in a throwback mood and recommending John Jeremiah Sullivan’s 2012 piece for the New York Times Magazine, “My Multiday Massage-a-thon.” In the piece, Sullivan, the author of the 2011 essay collection Pulphead and contributor to publications such as The Paris Review and GQ, first declares himself something of a massage...
Mary Karr on Reading and The Art of Memoir
This week we recommend an interview with poet and memoirist Mary Karr at The Paris Review, The Art of Memoir No. 1. In the interview, Karr, the author of the memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as four volumes of poetry and other works, speaks with Amanda Fortini on the nature of memoir,...
Holding Pattern: designer Lauren O’Neill finds the art in Google and airports
CPH (Copenhagen. This image appeared in Broad Street 1.2, “Hunt, Gather”). Designer and artist Lauren O’Neill uses modern technology to create art out of everyday tools of modern life: Google, satellite imagery, and air travel. Her Tumblr blog, Holding Pattern, gathers bird’s-eye views of airports culled from Google Earth, revealing their abstract, sometimes breathtaking beauty. It’s...
Contributor (and editor) Susann Cokal’s third book receives praise and treats. Read interviews about “The Kingdom of Little Wounds” here.
“Nothing has value until it is given away or stolen.” “In the darkness, fear my light.” —By Jamal Stone Broad Street is excited to see the final copy of our very own Susann Cokal‘s latest book, The Kingdom of Little Wounds. Set in the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn (Skü-geh-hown, rhymes with “down”) during the Renaissance, the...
