Posts by year
2010
3987 posts
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A little Northern Lights porn for you. Nerd news of the week: Lieberman wants to create S.H.I.E.L.D. for reals. A look at some pretty rad museums. Any opportunity to discuss…
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Rumpus Women
On Tuesday, November 30th, the Rumpus Book Club had about fifty people, including at least a dozen of the Rumpus Women authors, online at once. The discussions, which in real-time…
What Do You Know About Palestine?
Maybe you know a lot. Maybe you can offer an impromptu academic analysis of the the causes of the Second Intifada. Maybe you’ve toed the dirt in Jerusalem or made…
“He Ripped Me to Pieces.”
“The first thing Master Adams did was duck back and away, cocking his head as I opened my portfolio too quickly, almost clipping his nose. Then he looked at my…
Ted Wilson reviews the World #64
SUPERMAN ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Superman.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The Internet saw this one coming: FBI finally realizes that a Barbie doll with a built-in camera might be used by child predators. Some neat techie talk about WikiLeaks’ hosting…
Deus Ex Machina
“Rarely has societal critique come with more mayhem than in Altschul’s second novel (after Lady Lazarus), but perhaps extreme times call for extreme measures, especially when reality television is on…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/6-12/12
This week in San Francisco, Granta at City Lights, literature meets food at Feast of Words and to-the-death battle at Literary Death Match, and Believer Magazine hangs out at Electric…
The Way We Live Now
Today in Book Review, Shawna Lang Ryan reviews two new novels by Asian American writers, Quiet As They Come by Angie Chau and Take Me Home by Brian Leung. Read…
Notable New York, This Week 12/6 – 12/12
This week in New York, FSG Reading Series is back, ASK ME celebrates the holidays, Denis Leary tells us to Suck on this Year, Gigantic celebrates with tacos, Darin Strauss defends…