2011
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Growing Pains in Retrospect
In her new novel, The Adults, Alison Espach tells the story of one girl carefully stepping over that unbridgeable gap between childhood and adulthood, and nearly falling to pieces in the process.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Letters of Note on Einstein’s one great mistake. Iranian kids books are pretty great, can we agree on this? The internet exists so I can spend all day listening to whale sounds. Vaguely related: also you can listen to King…
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National Poetry Month, Day 19: “Deer between fallen branches” by Ely Shipley
Deer between fallen branches Snow fills the eyes of the winter animal. She’s like a photograph of himself as a child, feet dangling over the side of a boat, skimming
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SFIF Questionnaire for the Bay Area
If you are overwhelmed with the myriad film and party options available at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival, worry no more, you’re just five questions away from narrowing down the endless celluloid festivities and overcoming your indecision. (These…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Couldn’t Apple take it as a compliment that Samsung is copying it’s 3rd generation iPhone style in its new devices, rather than suing for infringement? Here’s another analysis of the suddenly high profile troubles at Twitter. In response to a…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/18-4/24
This week in San Francisco…it’s the 105th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, 4/20 is celebrated Dude style at the Red Vic, and Friends of the Public Library is having a book sale!
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Books and Happiness
A study published in this month’s Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine suggests that bookish teens tend to be less depressed than those who immerse themselves in the trendy deluge of mainstream media. The act of reading requires creativity and…
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Jennifer Egan Wins Pulitzer Prize
Excellent news! A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. You can read our interview with Egan here, and read some of her writing advice here.
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A Lot of Art, Little Management
The San Francisco Civic Art Collection, a 90 million dollar stockpile of paintings, statues and other pieces, is in disarray due to poor management. Much of the art that is supposed to decorate San Francisco’s public spaces—emblematic of the city’s…
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Unsolicited Writing Advice You Want
Some advice for writers from our own Elissa Bassist: [Some of this is stolen. But I won’t tell you what because I want to impress you.]
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #83
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Unsolved Mysteries.