2011
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/28-3/6
This week in San Francisco, Feast of Words, film night at the San Francisco Buddhist Center, Babylon Salon at Cantina, and raise money for public health with your mouth full at Cupcakes for Choice! Monday 2/28: Catch Stone Fox &…
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Book Club Member Josh Anastasia on Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
I don’t normally go out of my way to write reviews for poetry collections when I can just post a poem and let it speak. The Bigger World by Noelle Kocot is the most recent selection for The Rumpus Poetry Club. If…
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New Mountain Goats
Want to listen to All Eternals Deck, the new album by The Mountain Goats, which doesn’t hit stores until March 29? NPR has got you covered. (via LargeHeartedBoy)
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“Backbone”
“Backbone,” an excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, has been posted online by The New Yorker.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #76
WILSON, THE JEOPARDY! ROBOT ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Wilson, the Jeopardy! robot.
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Dan Fucking Sinker
Meet Dan Sinker, the man behind the hilarious @MayorEmanuel Twitter account “who has a heart made out of Chicago and balls of punk rock.” (via @MotherJones)
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Ack! Gmail contacts and emails go missing; Google acknowledges software problems. Rumors about Apple products in new colors really excite tech bloggers. Jurors tweeting from the jury box and other gaffes: how social media is changing legal ethics. A Chinese…
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Molly Colin: The Last Book I Loved, My Life as a Russian Novel
Let’s say I’m on a French train enroute to meet my boyfriend, a prominent French writer. I open that day’s copy of Le Monde and there’s a controlling, erotic story by him about an unnamed woman who, just like me,…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/28-3/06
This week in New York the 92nd Street Y focuses on “Literature and Revolution in the Middle East,” readings from Granta and Flatmancrooked, the Third Annual Chapbook Festival, Kevin Young reads from his new collection, and First Saturday at the…
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The Heart of Nothing Much That Mattered
Alan Heathcock’s stories are linked by the town of Krafton—where missing teenagers hang from trees and all anyone wants to do is get out.