BJ Hollars and Big Foot

Flying House contributor, BJ Hollars, has an obsession with Big Foot. He's been to conventions, and they sounded scary. Check out what he has to say for himself at Ninth Letter.

Art and the Metrocard

Frida Kahlo

"For the past 10 years, New-York-based Guatemalan artist Juan Carlos Pinto has been using discarded Metrocards to create vibrant mosaic portraits of cultural icons and local heroes alike. His artwork comments on issues of social justice and environmental conservation with a visual aesthetic that emanates the expressive lushness of the ancient Mayan folklore traditions of his homeland."


Read/see more here. 

House of Books

 

So cool. A house made entirely of book shelves! Read more about this glorious house here. 

Poetry Northwest Needs Your Votes!

The Pitch, a quarterly, online writing contest thrown by Poetry Northwest, has posted their finalists––and Jane Wong is one of them! Go check her out, gauge her competition, and send her your vote!

"Intermediate" Gatsby?

Seriously??!! A new "Intermediate" Great Gatsby? How much less can we expect from our education system? How can we appreciate the poetry of writer's word choices if words are to be dumbed down to an expressionless style?

Roger Ebert writes: "There is no purpose in "reading" The Great Gatsby unless you actually read it. Fitzgerald's novel is not about a story. It is about how the story is told. Its poetry, its message, its evocation of Gatsby's lost American dream, is expressed in Fitzgerald's style--in the precise words he choose to write what some consider the great American novel. Unless you have read them, you have not read the book at all. You have been imprisoned in an educational system that cheats and insults you by inflicting a barbaric dumbing-down process. You are left with the impression of having read a book, and may never feel you need return for a closer look."

Agreed. Read more here.

The Strange, Beautiful, Subterranean Power of Fairy Tales

Illustration by Nicoletta Ceccoli

Flying House friend, Kate Bernheimer, moderates a Fairy Tale forum @The Center for Fiction. Keep it coming, Kate.