2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In the year 2000 we will all drive Pussycars. Atlas Obscura wants to take you on a tour of Lovecraftian locales. There are people who dedicate themselves to writing about what discovering aliens will mean for people of faith. Using…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kirsten Kaschock
I met Kirsten Kaschock twelve years ago when we were new graduate students in creative writing in the Syracuse University MFA program—she, in poetry; I, in fiction. She was pregnant at the time; a few days later, she gave birth…
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All Over Coffee #553
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 Press. The second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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The Library at Occupy Wall Street
“A few days ago, Betsy, a trained librarian who lives in Brooklyn, came to the protest for the first time and found a short stack of books lying on the ground where everyone was camped out. She decided to go…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Have you ever had a fantasy involving a sexy male librarian? Yes? Check out Men of the Stacks. Library book thief nabbed by bookseller (and former high-school wrestler). The Millions has a reading list for pessimists. The Smithsonian has a…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Lazy Sunday? Check out what Rumpus Books has been up to this last week. Fingers Through Sweat-Curled Hair — Virginia Konchan reviews Mary Biddinger’s book of poetry, Saint Monica.
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Science Saturday
The Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded, and they’re awesome as usual. Say goodbye to Tevatron. New data on Mercury, and some great images too. Some background on the Italian trial of six geophysicists surrounding the Aquila earthquake of 2009.…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’ve begun the task of getting actual winter clothes for the first time in my life. It’s funny to watch, I imagine. I walk into a store and don’t even recognize what some of these things are. Pity me. The…
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Philip Roth for Nobel
“Even in Roth’s greatest work, if there is an act of villainy afoot, you can bet a woman is at the root of it. I revere Philip Roth, but if I were a woman I wouldn’t get within a hundred…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
BART cops now have to wear cameras that record their interactions with the public … but how effective will they really be? Oooh, Google Driving Directions now offers a helicopter-eye view of your route. The Euthanasia Roller Coaster … name…