Arts & Culture
Hard Sell
You are the age you are now but in 1937. There is no television, of course, which accounts…
Arts & Culture
Spread ‘Em
Last week, the Nightstand received an obscure letter written with fervor and a typewriter. While we’re not so…
Arts & Culture
Obscurity
There are things to be said about this year’s National Book Award nominations—namely, about the nefarious exclusion of…
Arts & Culture
The Unbearable Triteness of Being: A Quiz
Test your knowledge of Mariel and Sarah, memoirists.
Arts & Culture
Brokefest
The three staffers directly responsible for making this year’s Bookfest the best in recent memory lost their jobs…
Arts & Culture
Please Post, Posthaste
In addition to drinking less, being nicer to fat people, and reading to completion at least one book…
Arts & Culture
Supernova
The eighth issue of McSweeney’s, which came out last weekend, is beguiling, bighearted, and as beautifully constructed as…
Arts & Culture
Talkin’ Trash
Dorothy Allison is a short, sturdy, strident dyke known mostly for a novel called Bastard Out of Carolina.…
News
Watching Fergie
It’s Monday morning, and a thousand Seattle-area persons of size have crowded into a fourth-floor Westin Hotel conference…
