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The Baddest Girl Around
Maybe Canadian-born rapper Drake has never read Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice in Letters to a Young Poet: “Do not write love poems; avoid at first those forms that are too facile and commonplace: they...
View ArticleAt Least I Author My Own Disaster
“The past is a grotesque animal,” begins the eponymously titled Of Montreal song; “and in its eyes you see / how completely wrong you can be.” What follows is a beautiful, rich, long composition, one...
View ArticleNew Values and a New Quest
On Sunday, Pixar’s Brave won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. We recently had a chance to talk with its producer, Katherine Serafian. Here’s what she had to say. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Aaron Belz: I...
View ArticleTo His Bunny
You’re slightly odd-looking: neither as pretty as you imagine nor even as normal-featured. Your permanent eyebrows arch significantly when you lol followed by snort and nasal flare, your ears sloping...
View ArticleThe Maker of Mulan’s Mushu Speaks
Aaron Belz: Tom, nice to meet you. As the 15th-anniversary Blu-ray release of Mulan and Mulan 2 is about to come out, and you led the team that invented one of its most memorable characters, Mushu,...
View ArticleLife of an Animator
Aaron Belz: Hi, Tony. Tony Bancroft: Hey Aaron. How are you doing this morning? It’s pretty early for me, I don’t know about you. AB: It is a gorgeous day here, and I’m happy to be talking to you. TB:...
View Article#GrowCurator – A Word from Editor-in-Chief Aaron Belz
… DONATE HERE … Natalie Race, now Natalie Whitaker, emailed me last August asking if I’d like to be “more involved” with The Curator, and I said, “I’m interested!” I had written two essays for The...
View ArticleA Little Lightning
You think there’s more to this. Look: When I look I see skeletons walking around. I see ghosts of mammals gallivanting with iPhones in and out of bookshops, yesteryear’s biplanes spiraling into mad...
View ArticleUntrending
Modernist poets had typewriters and smoke-filled coffee shops. Their observations, however quotidian, sparkled on the page. Their schools and movements existed in relative secrecy. Myths surrounded...
View Articlekinderflauten
My feet, at the ends of my legs, do their job. My face competently presents itself to others. My hands do their job of grasping fruit from my neighbor’s grove while my eyes do their job of glancing...
View ArticlePLAYA DE LOS COCOS
The problem with the tropics is the problem with mankind: there is no neat conclusion to the analogy being presented. In the same way, there is no subsequent comparison that makes more sense of what’s...
View Article[From the Archives] PLAYA DE LOS COCOS
The problem with the tropics is the problem with mankind: there is no neat conclusion to the analogy being presented. In the same way, there is no subsequent comparison that makes more sense of what’s...
View ArticleNoir Fiction
In noir fiction, a classic McMuffin would be a sandwich that holds no meaning per se nor is its nature or essence revealed. It serves as a breakfast menu item to “move the plot forward” but otherwise...
View ArticleShare A Horizon
Deb, you told the principal I look disheveled. I appreciate the honesty. Stop telling people I remind you of a mop bucket. Honesty is nothing to sneeze at. You know I’ve always balked at looking down...
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