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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
From the “Things Making Us Smile This Friday” files: Jill Filipovic of Feministe calls Sugar “a national treasure” and “the best advice columnist on all of the interwebs.”