Swinging Modern Sounds #28: Can You Hear Me Crying?
It’s hard not to think a lot about Tucson lately, a place where I have spent a lot of time in the last five years, and which I have written…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/17-1/23
This week in San Francisco, Sketchfest continues, find out what happens when we become Overconnected, pitch your epic sci-fi murder-mystery memoir poem at Booksmith’s Pitchapalooza, and get de-virginized at Cell…
Notable New York, This Week 1/17-1/23
This week in New York City, Walter Mosley remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Chris Cleave reads from Little Bee, editors talk about the future of newspaper and magazine book…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #70
JOHNNY APPLESEED ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Johnny Appleseed.
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Happy 10th Birthday Wikipedia! Sage advice of the week: encrypt your smartphone. Steve Jobs is taking medical leave from Apple. Print magazines and the iPad: can’t live with it, can’t…
The Man Behind StoryCorps
About 60,000 people have interviewed family members, partners, and friends to record oral histories with StoryCorps. I’m one of those people. In 2009 I interviewed my husband, asking him questions…
Another Way to Save Libraries
When the residents of the small British town Stony Stratford heard that the town council voted to close the library due to budget cuts, they decided to do something drastic,…
This Is Why We Keep Slavoj Around
“Through actions like the WikiLeaks disclosures, the shame – our shame for tolerating such power over us – is made more shameful by being publicised.” — A little light Zizek…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“It’s a narrative in which the large-scale structure is determined by the progress of the idea, not the progress of the characters’ lives.” — Francis Spufford explains his book Red…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday’s everybody’s favorite day to catch up with what The Rumpus published last week.
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
We send our condolences to the friends and family of poet and activist Susana Chavez Marisela Escobedo, found murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on January 6. In case you missed…