2011
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All Over Coffee #552
Collaboration with Andrew Sean GreerClick image to enlarge: Written by Andrew Sean Greer. 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…
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Netflix Roundup #3
“Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told the newspaper the deal, worth $30 million per picture to Dreamworks over a number of years, was “game-changing” and represented a bet that viewers would soon no longer make distinctions between content streamed on the…
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Poet or Storyteller?
Tom Waits on Tom Waits, a comprehensive collection of interviews and encounters spanning nearly forty years, is essential reading for any Tom Waits fan.
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Notable New York, This Week 9/26-10/02
This week in New York, louderARTS features poets Nina Corwin and Tara Hardy, John Lithgow on Drama at Barnes & Noble, How I Learned to Survive, Sideshow Goshko, and The New Yorker Festival.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The positive side of global warming is that sea life is gonna get a lot cuter. Here are some Norwegian lamps. The Youtube videos of our minds (this is amazing, for reals). Avant-garde toys (sorry, MORE avant-garde toys). Famous last…
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The Rumpus Interview Without Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. is a comedian with balding, red hair. He has a television show that I’ve seen a few times and I enjoyed. I don’t know what his initials stand for or why his show is called Louie and not…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
I thought I’d mix in some serious reading with the humorous for you: Interesting read in The Stranger on white people, Seattle, racism, and something called the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites. The Hairpin imagines product placement in the publishing industry.…
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Has Technology Made Writers “Unoriginal”?
“Who hasn’t been moved by a great memoir? But I’m sensing that literature—infinite in its potential of ranges and expressions—is in a rut, tending to hit the same note again and again, confining itself to the narrowest of spectrums, resulting…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Canongate speaks out on publishing Julian Assange’s unauthorized autobiography. Kesey and Kerouac sitting in a tree, or not really at all. This is how to master not feeling so bad about your employment prospects in two weeks in book review…