The NY Times says blogging is waning due to Twitter/facebook/etc . . . but the stats don’t back that up. Despite what Apple and every mobile manufacturer think, some people…
As usual there’s a whole lot happening in the Rumpus Comics section. For example, Lisa brown’s fantastic “Welcome to the Ten-in-One” continues with “The Wild Boy.” And Paul Madonna brings…
THE FIGHT I IMAGINED BETWEEN A GIANT MAN AND A REGULAR-SIZED MAN ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today…
Unfortunately I, Ted Wilson, spent my New Year’s in jail. Always one to make the best of things, I spent my time writing haikus about my circumstance and posted them…
I knew I would like this book, Let’s Take the Long Way Home, because it’s about a friendship between two women that was deep and marvelous (the book and the…
On February 18 Mission District photographer Linda Wilson, long time staff member of El Tecolote, the bilingual newspaper of San Francisco, called me at home to let me know that…
This week in New York Joyce Carol Oates reads at the 92nd Street Y, a reading from the first book about WikiLeaks, the How I Learned Series presents readings on…
It’s a Monday, so here is a baby armadillo for you. Google Street Art is a pretty cool thing I think. Buffon’s Beasts (is great). This week is twitter visual…
Click image 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…
Seems as though SXSW is also experiencing a public look into gender disparity, like the literary world has recently been doing since the VIDA Count was released (nice round-up by…
Are submissions the life’s blood of a magazine? Or readers? “The Help” is suing. “To foreshadow anything is weak. It is like a boxer stalling for the bell,” writing advice…