2009
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/16-11/22
This week in San Francisco: holiday spirit at the Union Square Ice Rink, distilled spirits at the SF Indy Spirit Expo, and spirited performances at Point Break Live! Monday 11/16: Start the week off right with Love, God, Sex (and…
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DVD Review: Medicine for Melancholy
Two people meet at a party, have a one-night stand, and — in the cold awkward light of morning — finally get around to introducing themselves to one another. And maybe they even have coffee, and continue the conversation. And…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/16-11/22
This week in New York the Rumpus and Tin House present MORE THAN YOU EXPECTED with Rick Moody, Starlee Kine and Eugene Mirman followed by a meteor shower, Martin Amis and Chip Kidd celebrate Nabokov’s work with special exhibit of…
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A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster
I don’t know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn’t have to.
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The Caged Bird Speaks
The Guardian has a pleasant, long profile of Maya Angelou running in which she proclaims such niceties as “I’m fine as wine in summertime.” The profile covers many topics: giving a brief history of her career, the whole Hilary versus…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #11
I think I might be an adrenaline junkie, Doug. Well, sure, there’s still the regular junkie part too. But the meth is only fun now when I’m doing crazy shit like racing cars or running from the cops.
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Cormac’s Pretty Interview
The Wall Street Journal‘s John Jurgensen has a wonderful interview with Cormac McCarthy up on their website. In it, they gab about the difference between movies and books, which pertains to the new movie adaptation of McCarthy’s book The Road,…
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Morning Coffee
Shockingly not boring: a look inside an English cardboard factory. Children’s books from Poland. WWI-era airplane detection hearing aids. Could the common cold be the trick to avoiding swine flue? (spoiler alert: maybe!) Fact of the day: Japanese barcodes are…
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Ceasefire Liberia And The Promise of the Internet
Going through the book blogs every week, I read a lot about how the Internet is ruining everything — from publishing to our attention spans to investigative journalism to our social lives. But every once in a while, I hear…
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“Writers die twice”
“Writing remains a very interesting job, but destiny, or “fat Fate”, as Humbert Humbert calls it, has arranged a very interesting retribution. Writers lead a double life. And they die doubly, too. This is modern literature’s dirty little secret. Writers…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs had a great week — here’s some of what they have to say: This is very cool. Check out The Underground Library, a community in which “books are given out to Members of the Library, who are…