(Editor’s Note: We’re re-running Ariele Gentiles’ excellent tribute to her dad, which we published two years ago.  Ariele Gentiles does a ton of work behind the scenes here at Burnside, but doesn’t often contribute.  David Gentiles is her father, and a name that will be familiar...

It’s that time of year–after I’ve shelved my story collections by Poe and Shirley Jackson, etc. (which seem so horrifically October-apropos), that I begin to immerse myself again in the poetry of Robert Frost. Though his poems cover a wide-range of subjects and seasons, it is the...

It’s so hard for me to make lists like these. Music is ridiculously accessible nowadays, which makes a music junkie like myself go into nervous fits wondering what I should download next. And with the amount of incredible music being released by a wide variety of artists and musicians, well, narrowing...

For a night such as this, with the full moon rising in a clear, cold Texas sky, I chose The Decemberists’ newest record, Picaresque to invade my precious headspace. I have long been a Decemberists fan; Castaways and Cutouts, their first LP released just a few years ago, has found a cushioned place...