This week in New York, Sapphire and Sherman Alexie at the 92nd Street Y; Steve Almond reads from God Bless America; The Gaslight Salon Series; Slick Rick performs; Floating Kabarette;…
The Soviets don’t want you to drink (where did we go wrong?) Some variation of this seems to go around every three months, but it’s still always great to see…
Son of legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, Azazel Jacobs has risen steadily through the independent film scene since his debut in 2003 with Nobody Needs to Know.
Fiction Circus is campaigning for YouTube to add a “Literature” category to its current list of categories, which includes music, entertainment, sports, news and politics, comedy, and education. “Filling YouTube…
“Writers wear atrocious clothes when writing. So terrible that I have been asked, by the UPS man, ‘Are you all right?’ An example: stretched-out pajama bottoms imprinted with cowboys on…
What is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics,…
Kadafi’s book bans are over. At The Guardian, on “the many futures of books.” On the lack of literary apps. Three Percent wants you to know what translators look like.…
Click images to enlarge: *** All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights…