The tumbrlog of the online magazine Is Greater Than. Curated by Paul M. Davis and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, for now.
Photo by nwhitford on Flickr.
I started Is Greater Than in late 2007 with little direction or ambition, as a response to the sadness and frustration I felt after the end of Punk Planet magazine, where I served as an intern and a reviews editor during its last year. Despite my brief tenure at the magazine, I had been a long-time reader, and it had a huge impact on my thinking. I credit
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Once upon a time, the Little Mermaid came into Red Lobster. She came into Red Lobster sad and wobbly. Sad, because she missed her family and friends far away under the sea. Wobbly,…
These are popular times for novels set in a dystopic near-future America. This setting has understandably become a reflection of our collective disaffection as citizens, our anxieties, our…
The thing about the way I troll for fodder for this column – going to [monolithic internet retailer]‘s web site, clicking on new music releases for a given week, seeing what catches my eye –…
Recently I spent an extraordinary amount of time testing grenadine recipes, trying to find one that wouldn’t sacrifice color for flavor, or flavor for color. There are a lot of complaints out there…
Photo by Graham Watson on Flickr
The reader…will hear the accursed cat, which is a symbol of unredeemed guilt, mewing behind the wall.
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
I don’t have much…
There are a lot of headbands in the National Basketball Association. And socks and towels and jerseys. And on every one of them; in fact on just about all things NBA, there is the logo. You know…
It may be well into the glorious, green, sunny season of spring – at least for those of you not stuck in the interminably cloudy, cold weather sinkhole that is Seattle these days – but that…
Here in the US the sun is finally getting close enough to the equator to warm our frosted bones and we can finally bring out all those wide legged pants and maxi skirts that have excited the…
In my circle of friends it has always been all about granola. A friend of mine in Philly makes a vanilla bean and sea salt granola that I would, if it came down to a last bowl, punch…
