
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen


“The Questionnaire: Lindsay Reckson”
March 26th, 2012
“PODCAST: Andy Zax talks to Simon Reynolds, Part I”
April 7th, 2012
“Andy Zax talks to Simon Reynolds, Part II”
April 7th, 2012
“Fascinated Neutrality: An Interview with Alastair Reynolds”
April 7th, 2013

“PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"”
May 19th, 2013
“Concord is Where You Are Right Now”
August 16th, 2012
“Playing It Cool: An Interview with Poet Michael Robbins”
July 10th, 2012
“Pacific Overture: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson”
January 9th, 2012


“Why Fuck Around with Small Talk?”
December 8th, 2012
“The Hazards of an Open Heart: A Conversation with Davy Rothbart”
December 8th, 2012


"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More