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The End of Stock Photography Museum Well, not exactly. But this blog will be moving to my new website:  www.adampeterson.net . You can...

There is a NIGHT within the NIGHT These wolves know what he's talking about.  I saw Frank Bidart read once and don't reme...

Teaching Autobiography of Red This Week Wrote about it when I first read it five years ago here , favorite lines here . Now my fav...

The Actual Book I'm Reading Next So I read around in this when I got it, but I had to put it away until after my exams. Now I...

Instead of Posting My Entire Exam Essays I'm posting the book I'm reading next. Because clearly putting this on Facebook wasn...

Nadirs, or: Songs That Almost Single-handedly Ruin Great Albums * Spoon's Girls Can Tell - "Fitted Shirt" * The Replacem...

So I know I said I was making that James Baldwin quote my mantra, but I've thought it over and I'm now making this video that'...

John Barth Stepping from the treacherous passage at last into the mirror-maze, he saw once again, more clearly than ever, how readily he ...

Italo Calvino Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think ex...

On Bad Guys So for a lot of reasons--reading dozens of books for comps, teaching a literature class, re-watching Fringe , Rex Ryan, e...

First Cuts Are the Deepest So I can't say I typically read a lot of essay collections--so maybe this is standard--but I've been ru...

A Primer on the Rules of Cricket , Pt. 6 51. God's spilt tea--or "rain"--shall cause a cessation of play known as a nill...

Selling I like any ad that's pitch is basically, "Look, you probably want things you don't really want. We'll help you achi...

Look It's a video I spent 30 minutes making after seeing a spider burying its spider buddy/lover/parent. Or eat. It also could have been...

Two Links * I have a short piece giving some flash fiction bylaws over at Nano Fiction for their State of Flash series. I really do mean a...