Norris Church Mailer
Lawrence Schiller remembers Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer’s sixth and final wife, who passed away last Sunday at the age of 61. (via TheBookBench)
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Continuing a theme: I like these things too. Secret Indian chambers. Aquarium architecture. 3D skull renderings. Map-based infographics. The solar sail.
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Darin Strauss
More than anyone else, though, Strauss holds himself up to intense examination and scrutiny, revealing very human, and in some cases unflattering, reactions and defenses over the years.
Walking Shadows
A “novel without words” captures the turmoil of the working class: public housing, alcoholism, youth violence, adult bitterness, boredom, crime, and drugs.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/22-11/28
This week, art porn at 111 Minna, a list of the best Mission bars to spend Thanksgiving at, do good this Black Friday at Creative Housing Liberation’s Housing Harvest, and…
Smith and Lethem
National Book Award winner Patti Smith talks books with Johnathan Lethem (warning: it’s a long talk).
Consider the Archive
Newsweek rummages through “the mixed-up files of David Foster Wallace” at the University of Texas. After you’ve read the article, be sure not to miss the photos of DFW’s notes…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #62
ANDY ROONEY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Andy Rooney.
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
If you have an i-device, you may care that the new iOS is out today. Tigers and panthers and snow leopards, oh my! They’re all dying out. Should Apple help?…
An Artist’s Interpretation of a Teenager’s Head Exploding in Science Class
Thirteen illustrations by Phil Kirkland for early 1970s science textbooks: