Taking a Bite of the Digital Madeleine
Near the end of my first date with Mary, the woman who would become my wife and mother to my son, I asked her if she would mind going out…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/26-8/1
This week, make your Monday, discover a microhood, Tourettes Without Regrets goes XXX, and The Mission has some more artsy block parties. Monday 7/26: Get yourself to the Fort Mason…
Writing for the Long Haul
“You cannot continue to write well if you believe that money is the measure of a person’s worth. You cannot continue to write well if you believe that critical consensus…
FUNNY WOMEN SHORTS: Email from Lorin Stein
“Last week, the new editor of the Paris Review, Lorin Stein, told The Observer that he and his recently installed poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, were preparing a ‘holy shit’ poetry…
The End of Forgetting? Not Quite
Scott Rosenberg has written a thorough takedown of Jeffrey Rosen’s NYT Magazine piece, “The End of Forgetting.” When I read it yesterday, I felt like there was something amiss about…
Fake Missed Connections, Real Responses
Are you reading Ships that pass yet? “A collection of fake, imagined, and literary missed connections posted to Craigslist and then re-posted here with real and actual responses to fake,…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #46
THE NAME LARRY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the name Larry.
Starlee Kine’s Thing
“I love collaboration, if it’s with somebody who I trust. If it’s with someone I don’t trust I hate it.” Jewcy talks with Starlee Kine (and her dog, Oh Papa)…
Jane Austen’s Fight Club
Jane Austen’s Fight Club – watch more funny videos Dear IMDB visitors, you may also enjoy Bill and Ted’s Excellent Inception, also this is just plain awesome. You can watch…
Wikileaks Roundup
In my TED roundup on Saturday, I linked to a conversation with Julian Assange of Wikileaks, an organization which has, according to Assange, released more classified documents in the last…
Tao’s Tuesday Trespass
Tao Lin, author of Shoplifting From American Apparel and Richard Yates (the Rumpus Book Club’s August pick), has posted “an account of being arrested for ‘trespassing’ NYU’s Bookstore.”
Termite Parade in NYTBR
“These people are marginalized and angry, but for good reasons, and Mohr captures them with haunting acuity.” Rumpus contributor Joshua Mohr‘s latest novel Termite Parade gets some NYTBR love.