Notable San Francisco, This Week, 7/5-7/10
This week in San Francisco, get to Slim’s for old and new honky tonk at Rattle and Rye, the Booksmith presents Literary Clown Foolery and Fort Mason hosts the Renegade…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Would you stay at a hotel that gave you a discount for giving up your digital devices? Emotion reading technology may be the next big thing. Apple’s technology sometimes seems…
Remembering Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly, the 83 year-old conceptually diverse artist, died in Rome today. He was an American painter living in Italy, known for his graffitti-like paintings and his genre-shattering abstractions that…
Sweet Deal!
Rumpus readers are getting a sweet deal! The good folks over at Litquake are hosting an event on July 10th called the New Literary Vanguard, in which they will “delve…
O’Connor’s Cartoons
In light of a forthcoming publication of Flannery O’Connor’s early drawings, this Guardian article takes a look at her cartoons. The drawings—taken from the author’s high school and undergraduate years—are…
FUNNY WOMEN #58: As Seen on TV
A day in the life of a woman whose life is exactly how all TV ads think it is: The first thing I do when I wake up is dance-twirl…
The Thirty-Second Story
Inspired by “Jeopardy!,” this Book Bench article explores “the thirty-second story.” The anxiety-inducing nature of composing a memoir in thirty seconds is explored through discussion with former contestants of the…
No More Liking, Please
Has the point-of-view been rendered anachronistic by internet marketing? When we “like” something on Facebook, are we participating in a conformist internet-based culture? This Wall Street Journal article discusses the…
Still with the Scarlet Letters
Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping…
The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1
The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1, charts the expansive career of an experimental science fiction writer.