While we  finally get around to working on our own fiction only to discover we still can’t write work feverishly over the holiday break to bring you more exciting blog diversions, we hope you’ll take a moment to revisit some of our favorite features that appeared on The Open Bar in 2012.

Sontag Rules.

Barney Rosset remembered.

Marriage is a beast.

A Portland/Brooklyn Mix tape.

Writing Erotic Fiction.

Ben Percy encounters Darth Vader.

Luis Alberto Urrea gets strange.

Heather Hartley on overseas periodicals.

Rob Spillman and Hannah Tinti discuss baby trees.

Vishwas Gaitonde on Rebecca’s opening sentence.

Anderson Tepper on Claricie Lispector’s wild heart.