Readings

Made in China

The case here described is real, witnessed by the author in Toronto Small Claims court. The names have been changed and some details and times condensed. This week in Petty Justice: Tens of thousands of dollars in missing consulting funds.

Karen Russell Comes Out From the Swamp

Hazlitt talks to the much celebrated Swamplandia! author about outsider art, her latest collection of stories, horror films, and the escapism of writing a novel.

||Elsa Schiaparelli
Standard Apparel: Our Clothes Don't Fit and They're Falling Apart

We are the first generation for whom made-to-measure clothing is exotic. Instead, we drape ourselves in sizes standardized to no one in particular.

Show’s Over: On Alias, and the Perils of Concert-Promoting

The bands complain, you wipe out your savings, nobody notices when you've done a good job, and sometimes people just don't show up. Why would anyone ever want to put on a concert?