Checking in with Sian Richards

What are you working on right now? The Performers Exchange Project is looking to add a few gigs for our last performance, Our American Ann Sisters. We performed here, we performed it at the Hamner, we took it a few other places. We took it to the Catskills in New York, so we’re looking to […]

You have no secrets

    Headbone connects to the headphones Headphones connect to the iPhone iPhone connected to the Internet Connected to the Google Connected to the government. —M.I.A., “The Message”   You are being watched. Your Facebook friends are watching you. So are their Facebook friends, and total strangers. The guys who run Facebook, too. Your keystrokes […]

New Stories from the South 2010; Amy Hempel, editor; Algonquin Books

At first glance, the landmark 25th edition of Algonquin’s venerable New Stories From the South appears to be alphabetically arranged. It starts off with newcomer Adam Atlas and then moves on to old-timer Rick Bass, who led off 2007’s A-to-Z version—but then it jumps down the alphabet to Brad Watson, who has not only the […]

Readers respond to previous issues

Abortion is risky I am glad that Ms. Daugherty and the women she interviewed were unharmed by their abortions [“Cuccinelli versus women’s health?” Opinion, Sept. 21]. Sadly, not all women share that experience. Like all surgeries, abortion poses serious risks. These include excessive bleeding, puncture of the uterus, infection, and (rarely) maternal death. Abortion facilities […]