Brian Nicolet looks at Dunstan Thompson and Tamura Ryuichi, two masters left to collect dust in the basement of the 20th century until The Unsung Masters Series came along. more »

A call for radical formatting: Put a well-loved poem on some nice cardstock and give it—or trade it, or sell it—to a friend. Fringe Editor Anna Lena Phillips, on why we need broadsides and other visual embodiments for poetry now more than ever. more »

The Publisher/Editor of Cooper Dillon Books talks about poetical collaborations, the underrated virtue of humility, and the need for community. more »

Poet Jeannine Hall Gailey talks about anime, comics, and how paper books will survive the zombie apocalypse. more »

I learned the shape of our world from a map pulled down out of its cocoon above the chalkboard. It was a rainbow burst of color, each country with its own. This map also outlined each US state. As a six year old, this did not strike me as unbalanced, as if worldwide my little state of Ohio was viewed on par with China. They were both purple. I did not wonder why our states were delineated and China’s provinces were not. Should I have? I didn’t know China had provinces until college. Do... more »

Cartographer Denis Wood talks with Tim Stallmann about making maps and about his new book, Everything Sings more »

We asked the Fringe armada about meaningful places, and mapped their responses -- from Batman's real-life dwelling to the hills of the Ozarks. more »

A think-tank fellow turned novelist makes economics exciting in his first novel, and talks moral maps, overseas love, and literary heroes with Fringe. more »

Venezuelan installation artist Sakia Jordá talks about the connection between place and space, how writer Italo Calvino inspired her, and why indifference is the worst response to her work. more »

The self-proclaimed Ramones of poetry tells Fringe how any idiot can do what he does, and why more adults deserve playtime. more »

Heidi Durrow tells us about her debut novel, and why we shouldn't worry about her emotional well-being. Really. more »

The award-winning poet talks about what she got out of her Peace Corps years, and poetry’s power to rescue a person from an “emotional tsunami.” more »

The Chairman of the “humor-writers’ ghetto” riffs on self-serious critics, idol worship, and what it means to be a Drooling Fanatic. more »

Eliot Khalil Wilson talks about poetry as a moral act, shopping for images while traveling, and why he’d be happy to be sung to by a frog. more »

Anna Lena Phillips reviews Gabriel Thompson's Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do, a new book of nonfiction about how immigrants earn their way in the U.S. more »

Paul Buhle adapted Studs Terkel’s oral history masterpiece, Working, into a comic book. He talks to Fringe’s Alexandra Sheckler about what working means to individuals and how comics reveal the lives of ordinary people in a way that prose can’t. more »

Addonizio talks about how a poet is like a musician, being inspired by “Little Orphan Annie,” overcoming fear of failure, and what it takes to be a working poet. more »

Poet Cheryl Dumesnil talks about why her children are her gurus, San Francisco as a font of poetry, and how she knows when a poem is ready to publish. more »

Jessa Crispin, founder and editor of Bookslut, on her erudite litblog, the publishing industry, and the best reads of 2009. more »

Author, essayist and journalist D.T. Max on Raymond Carver, his distrust of adverbs, and why he was destined to become a writer. more »