Morning Bites: Secret American Towns, Poetry for the Witches, Sam McPheeters, Pulp on TV, and More

The United States operated a secret town in Eastern Tennessee as part of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.  A Continuos Lean has photos of the government’s top secret town. Joseph Pulitzer was born on this day in 1847. The witches of Lancashire get poetry. Sam McPheeters talks to LA Weekly about his new book The Loom of Ruin. Nancy Cohen (Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution is Polarizing America) is the guest on the latest Bat Segundo show. New fiction by Ryan Chang at […]

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Dusting Off: Pulp’s Last Album

Posted by Tobias Carroll The first thing you see, holding this record in your hands, is the cover. The design is stark, comprised entirely of text. First comes the name of the band, the font enormous and ornate, two letters across two lines: PULP. Below that, smaller, resembling the sort of hand-punched labels that used to adorn my dad’s collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings, is the title: WE LOVE LIFE. That contrast sets up the album to come, one that’s […]

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