Readingground Blogazine

by Todd Carlstrom
I regard myself as a relatively eloquent guy, fiercely proud of the modest shoebox of sexy vocab words from which I draw (on an increasingly infrequent basis, now that my liberal arts education is largely in mothballs). Yet, get me around my brothers Mark and Casey, and I’m reduced to speaking at [...]

by Chris Holst
such a silly image
a thin girl barefoot
wearing floral silk
hair curling, a halo
like a ship at sea she pitches
at night in a storm
binding herself with the sheets
sighing and shouting in her sleep
she’s something dark
but buries it in her curls
her smiles and white teeth
the things she cooks for dinner
she slices into a jalapeno
scrapes the seeds [...]

by Dave McGeeA Wrinkle in Time is the first of Madeleine L’Engle’s series about brilliance, evil, the nature of the space-time continuum (or as Lynne Reid Banks might call it the “time, space–proportion“), angels, telepathy, our symbiotic relationship with mitochondria, human history, and God. So with good reason(s), they were among my favorite childhood books. [...]

I know it isn’t exactly cold yet, at least not here in Brooklyn, but the cooler nights and mornings have me considering using the oven again. The September Food & Wine has this roast chicken from Jacques Pépin that looks amazing. I love Jacques’ technique of roasting breast side down, it really works to [...]