2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Smiths, in superhero cartoon form makes tons of sense. Look no further than here for your daily dose of excerpted saccharine verbiage describing Australian lithographs. Infinity’s been a problem forever. The worst thing to happen to cute animals since…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Keith Scribner
Novels explore the lives of particular people in particular places to reveal truths about human nature in general and insights into who we all are.
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By Any Other Name
Like Freedom, Keith Scribner’s third book, The Oregon Experiment, is hugely ambitious, decidedly modern, distinctly American novel, with complicated family dynamics, and remarkable depth of character and psychological nuance.
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Rayner Joins LARB
LA Times columnist/renowned essayist/novelist extraordinaire Richard Rayner is making some moves. His column, “Paperback Writers” has found a new home in the LA Review of Books. Though the move was due to cuts more generally, the ever-worsening state of the…
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Notable San Francisco 8/1-8/6
This week in San Francisco, it’s the first week of the month, so that means a lot of (free!?!!) stuff to get to. It’s also August, so here’s to some sunnier days (please?!?) to do all this stuff in. Monday…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Adobe seems to be edging toward HTML5, potentially preparing to leave Flash behind. A new patent infringement suit is adding to Hulu’s recent acquisition woes. Meet one of the not-so-threatening faces behind LulzSec. Your future iPad will be made by robots,…
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Tracking Our Literary Style
Is there a distinct difference between our everyday, colloquial speak and written literary language? Fiction has gone through some major evolution since the 19th century when written prose and the vernacular of the time diverged, but this dichotomy has transformed.…
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Longshot Strikes Again
Longshot Magazine, the annual made-in-48 hrs publishing, internet-based whirlwind, just wrapped up their second issue and the theme is Debt, which proved limitless, submission-wise. It’s got personal essays, both fiction and nonfiction, some photo-journalism—all compiled by around 100 people equipped…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #96
OF MICE AND MEN ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Of Mice and Men.
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August’s Rumpus Book Club Selection
August is upon us. This new month brings with it an exciting Rumpus Book Club selection—Alex Shakar’s Luminarium, published by Soho Press. The synopsis is as intriguing as the praise it’s been garnering. Dave Eggers offered his praise, calling it…
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A Talk with James
“I really hope I don’t have that responsibility of teaching people how to have sex.” Salon’s Tracy Clark-Flory talks with prolific male porn star James Deen.
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Notable New York, This Week 8/01-8/07
This week in New York The Shrinks are Away hosted by Susan Shapiro, Word for Word Poetry at Bryant Park featuring Kundiman poets, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes at Riverside Park, a Super Freaky reading with Stacy Carlson and Alexander…