2011
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On Gawker’s Nastiness
“What the Gawker ethos (i.e., the sneer) comes down to is this: Everyone is a phony, except presumably those writers at Gawker who labor tirelessly to point out this phoniness (think Holden Caulfield gone a little sour, and getting a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Steve Almond
Steve Almond just released his third story collection, God Bless America. Among the stories, which Junot Díaz says are, “without equal in their beautiful, terrible honesty,” a couple are included in Best American and Pushcart Prize anthologies.
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We’re Getting On, Are You?
“After the march on Chase, I returned to Liberty Square. I was participating, at last, but the nature of my participation remained vague. In the early stages of a movement, it’s important to simply show up and be counted. Few…
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Philosopher or Dog?
Andrew O’Hagan’s playful novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his Friend, Marilyn Monroe follows one terrier around the mid-20th century as he pontificates on Plutrach, Nietzsche, and acting.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We are all from Greenland. So there. Sometimes you just want to look at the world’s largest pumpkin being carved. Visualizing 138 years of Popular Science. Hurray for Swedish book design. Maybe McDonald’s awful food is making the world a…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
You can now look at the interior of (public) buildings with Google Street View. It’s sad that he’s dead and all, but Steve Jobs might not be the best role model. Patent lawyers have turned their sights on social networking…
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Post-it Notes from the Underground
Last week Joe Kloc visited both Occupy San Francisco and Occupy Oakland.
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Talking with Didion
“I wanted to write about having children and how we dealt with having children, and that really wasn’t what the book turned out to be about at all. The book was, in a lot of ways, about my getting older.…
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Paul La Farge Reading
Tomorrow in SF“Luminous Airplanes has a singular form: the novel, complete in itself, is accompanied by an online “immersive text,” which continues the story and complements it. Nearly ten years in the making, La Farge’s ambitious new work considers large worlds and…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Make sure you check out Seth Fischer’s excellent Occupy Oakland roundup from earlier today. One update to that story–Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran who was shot in the head with a “police projectile” is in the hospital in critical…