27 Jun
Vegetable tanned leather, antique nickel & steel hardware

You’re bound for some sort of adventure this summer, why not tote a duffle named after one of the more red blooded, adventurous, life lusting and literary souls of the 20th Century? Brought to you by Eugene, Oregon-based Will Leather Goods the Hemingway duffle is sure to uphold tests of durability (excessive travel, excessive items, […]


27 Jan
Docu-series profiles Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick & the trailblazers of the Sci-Fi universe

A recent edition to the ZZZFROMHELLZZZ channel on Youtube are three hour-long documentaries related to Science Fiction. The first, Profits of Science Fiction: Arthur C. Clarke, centers on Sci-Fi visionary Sir Arthur C. Clark, the revered science fiction writer responsible for some of the most iconic stories of the genre. The landmark novel 2001: A […]


22 Feb
A BBC radio documentary of the lost American literary talent

As the world prepares for the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King, BBC reporter and professor Geoff Ward visits Wallaces birthplace in rural Illnois and interviews a coterie of his closest friends (agent Bonnie Nadell), family (sister Amy Wallace), contemporaries (Rick Moody and former roommate Mark Costello) and professional colleagues […]


7 Jan
A giant box head filled with literary goodies

The great literary magazine McSweeney’s returns with one of their most imaginatively plackaged issues, Number 36. Utilizing a very innovative presentation, which borrows more than a bit from Visionaire‘s philosophy of outside-the-box packaging (no pun intended), the “issue” is actually a 275-cubic-inch crate filled with goodies. The giant head box is filled with a litany […]


16 Dec
Get motivated, hang your coat with the Quote Hook

The idea behind the Quote Hook coat hook rack is simple: to give you a little boost of motivation when motivation is running dry. Especially around winter when you have to rush out the door to your freezing car, turn it on, and wait for the cold to clench your ribs in an icy embrace […]


24 Mar
Kode9, aka Steve Goodman, drops the sonic literary science

As a pioneering producer of dubstep, Kode9 (aka Steve Goodman) has intricately explored the effects of sonic frequencies on human beings — used for positive results, his groundbreaking sub-bass tracks laid the foundation for the flourishing dubstep genre. But the doctor in Goodman (he has a PhD. in Philosophy from from the University of Warwick, […]