2011
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Animals In Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Hyenas (part 2 of 3) Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
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Time for a Digital Diet?
Anybody feeling the “encroachment of the buzz,” the multitudinous distractions that prevent us from concentrating on a book? Johann Hari is offering survival tips for these distracting times. “A book has a different relationship to time than a TV show…
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No Bad News for the King
In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin (a pseudonym for an American journalist in Asia) untangles the convoluted story of contemporary Burma and the 2008 cyclone that killed over 100,000 people.
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What’s Roth Been Up To?
In an interview with the Financial Times, the seasoned 78 year-old author, Philip Roth, has decidedly sworn off reading fiction by way of saying, “‘I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t read it at all. I read other things: history, biography.…
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All Over Coffee #540: Collaboration with Cheryl Strayed
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Cheryl Strayed. Click here to view.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is about time we started advertising to monkeys. Need to get married but short on funds? The AutoWed machine costs a mere dollar to use. Evidently the Olympics own 2012. Today in Russian fire-based art. Fake English houses are…
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All Over Coffee #540
collaboration with Cheryl StrayedClick image to enlarge: … Written by Cheryl Strayed. For more information on collaborative All Over Coffee strips, go to allovercoffee.com. … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and…
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Get These Authors on Your Shelves!
From a place bubbling over with intellectual stimulation and social change comes a lot of good literature. The Millions is spotlighting six Egyptian authors that you should know about, inspired by an afternoon at Cairo’s Diwan Bookstore. There’s a lack…
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What Would A Kid Say About Go the Fuck to Sleep?
Seems like big kids and parents alike are getting a lot of writing mileage out of Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach’s playfully honest plea to his daughter to expedite her bedtime rituals. The book and its hype have…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 6/27-7/3
This week in San Francisco, NYC mags BOMB and Guernica want to meet you (and maybe make-out with you), the Top of the Mark toasts movies of SF and Neko Case treats Stern Grove to a free show.