I Know My Brother In the Mirror
Michael Klein’s then, we were still living is a thoughtful, emotional book that treats death in a fresh, even endearing way.
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2010
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Friday and who doesn’t love little people street art? My forefathers come from the land of terrible teeth it turns out. Did you know the World Fencing Championship…
Dinaw Mengestu on Writers Block
Click here to listen to Dinaw Mengestu read a passage from How to Read the Air. Click here to read the Rumpus interview with Mengestu.
The Dangers Of Making Art
“To be dangerous is to remind the world of what our humanity means to us, rather than allowing everyone to settle into complacency. To challenge us to dig deeper into…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Let’s all take a moment & be grateful, ’cause none of us have been thrown in a labor camp on our wedding day for tweeting a joke. A joke! A tisket,…
“Charge, angry youth”
“A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp” for a tweet. We encourage those of you who use Twitter to re-tweet her statement (“Charge,…
Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City
Just to let all discriminating book-buyers know: Rebecca Solnit’s new gorgeously-illustrated and highly-collaborative book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas is out now at all independent bookstores.
Donkey Blogger Released
Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video…
Not So Fast, Google
French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand is very wary of the country’s deal to let Google “scan French-language out-of-print books.” (via PW)