“What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I think it would be fun if Literary Kicks won the 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize in 2015. My blog post “First There Is A Mountain” is … Read the rest
Turn off your mind relax and float downstream.
Welcome to Literary Kicks, a website about literature. It’s also about music, philosophy, Internet culture, pacifism, visual art, world history, literary criticism, pop culture, politics, bad television.
This is my website — the name is Marc though I’m also known as Levi… Read the rest
When I’m feeling stressed out, I head for nature. I found myself driving to Old Rag Mountain in Virginia’s Shenandoah range this weekend.
I’ve done a few amazing hikes in this region: Mary’s Rock, Catoctin, Hawksbill, Big Schloss, sometimes with others and sometimes alone. The challenging eight-mile Old Rag hike … Read the rest
“What’s your road, man? — holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow …” — Kerouac
If you’ve hung around Literary Kicks for a while (and, yes, it certainly has been a while), you know this website is always in … Read the rest
The past week was a rough ride on the literary Internet. Thursday brought the sudden death knell of HTMLGiant, a rollicking community website frequented by writers like Tao Lin, Zachary German, Megan Boyle, Noah Cicero, Marie Calloway and Blake Butler along with a wide cast of erratic contributors and … Read the rest
(Literary Kicks is twenty years old today. This fact has left me speechless, so I asked Jamelah Earle to send some retrospective thoughts. — Levi)
When I was 16, I was on my high school forensics team. This was not in any way related to anything you might see on … Read the rest
Sometimes shuffle mode on my iPhone really comes through for me. I was having a pretty bad day yesterday, and it found a song that cheered me up.
I was having a bad day for a few different reasons. The biggest is something that’s been going on for a while … Read the rest
I’ve got to recharge the old battery this weekend. Hope I don’t get the red and black cables mixed up.
Back to philosophy soon!… Read the rest
Every once in a while I find myself wondering why I run a blog series called Philosophy Weekend that doesn’t necessarily resemble anybody else’s idea of what philosophy is, and maybe also doesn’t necessarily resemble anyone’s idea of what a weekend is.
I was in one of these questioning moods … Read the rest
