February 2012
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Notable San Francisco 2/27-3/4
This week in San Francisco – flash fiction, Litquake action, activist readings, and end the week with something sweet: Monday 2/27: Catch the end of the Jewish Community Center’s 2012 Bookfest with a staged reading of Peter Orner’s collection, Esther…
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From the Ruins
“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate . . . but with his other hand he can note down what he…
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The Shape-Shifter
In his memoir, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked, Darrell Hammond tells his story with a remarkable candor that seems designed not to shock or titillate, but to allow for a full and honest rendering of a scary…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/27-3/04
This week in New York, there are plenty of things to do if you’re not going to be at AWP in Chicago (sad face): Sam Lipsyte reads at Stony Brook; Agorafabulous! at WORD; Behind the Curtain: A Magazine Roundtable; Ellen…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Explore the inhabitable universe, right here on earth! Don’t be such a jerk, elephant. How about some classic Southern California swimming pool photography. Tiny tiny ancient horses. Hurray for brain maps!
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All Over Coffee #573
Someone asked, so…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 Sunday Rumpus Interview: Stephanie Vaughn
In January of 2001, optimistic and slightly at sea at the start of my final college semester, I walked into the University of Wisconsin’s student bookstore in search of an anthology edited by a writer whose name I’d never heard,…
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Sunday Fiction: Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog (excerpt)
When I awoke, I did not recognize the window. The snow had stopped and moonlight slanted through the glass. I could not make out the words, but I heard my father’s voice filling up the house. I tiptoed down the…
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Lit-Link Round-up
I interview Rhonda Hughes of Hawthorne Books over at The Nervous Breakdown. Rhonda is apparently hard to pin down for interviews, so folks tell me I was lucky to snag this—they’re right: I was. The ridiculously cool Wanda Coleman, whose…
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Science Saturday
Aging eyes can adversely affect your health. Easily pronounced names may make people more likable. I wonder if there’s a backlash against names which get too popular? Do you want to know what microbes are living on your smartphone? Rainfall…
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The Rumpus at AWP
The AWP Convention starts this coming Wednesday, and The Rumpus will be there. Thursday night we’ll be raising money for 826 Chicago, which is an awesome youth literacy program and which is home to The Boring Store, which is definitely…
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Trees Are Blooming Into Bright Lightbulbs
Schomburg’s newest book, Fjords, Vol. 1 holds true to this idea of finding familiarity in a parallel consciousness. Just because the poems often work in a seemingly private dreamscape, doesn’t mean you aren’t invited to into the strangeness, asked to…