2011
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Notable San Francisco 10/17-10/23
This week in San Francisco! Monday 10/17: POETS! At Bird & Beckett books features Nancy Wakeman, Kit Kennedy and Don Brennan. As always, readings are followed by an open mic. 7PM, FREE. Khaled Hosseini discusses the transformation and re-release of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #106
INCEPTION ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Inception.
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“Chuck Palahniuk Goes to Hell”
“It’s liberating. Fight Club is what bought me my freedom. When you think about so many people—Burroughs, you think of Naked Lunch—so many people are just identified by one work. So it’s not so unusual. Ken Kesey, you think of…
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Priyanka Ghosh: The Last Book I Loved, Kartography
I am on a reading spree off and on and a lot of it depending on the state of my mind and my love affairs. If I am happy and in love I don’t read as much as I would…
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Welcome to the Ten-In-One
WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE: The Siamese Twins Lisa Brown continues her incredible Rumpus Comic series: “Welcome to the Ten-In-One.”
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All Over Coffee #555 Collaboration with Cheryl Strayed
An incredibly beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Cheryl Strayed. …more
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Make Your Own
Tyler McMahon’s debut novel relives and re-examines a celebrated musical era: grunge rock from America’s Pacific Northwest.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/17-10/23
This week in New York, Scary stories with Storychord.com; Deborah Baker on The Convert at the NYPL; a reading by US Poet Laureate Philip Levine; Colson Whitehead on zombies at McNally Jackson; Record Collecting for Girls; the CMJ Music Marathon…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all take a moment out of our day to appreciate old Welsh pop albums. If you can steal an entire bridge I’m pretty sure it legally belongs to you. the Pergamon World Atlas (here’s your flickr set for the…
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Small Fates with Teju Cole
While doing research for a book set in his hometown, Lagos, Nigeria, author Teju Cole (Open City) kept coming across these incidents in the newspapers of Lagos. Known in the French as fait divers, Cole describes the stories as “an…
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Free Books: Public Bookshelves in Germany
You know those “leave a penny, take a penny” trays that are sometimes at delis, grocery stores, and as stations? It’s a small but kind gesture that can inspire a pay-it-forward mentality in people. In Germany, they’ve taken this gesture…
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All Over Coffee #555
collaboration with Cheryl StrayedClick image to enlarge: … Written by Cheryl Strayed. For more information on collaborative All Over Coffee strips, go to allovercoffee.com. … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and…