February 2012
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Cheryl Strayed Podcasted!
Brad Listi interviews Cheryl Strayed for his “Other People” podcast. Listen in as Strayed talks about being Sugar and the coming out party. More topics include: “…Love, advice, self-help, narcissism, anonymity, personal vs. universal, internal vs. external, Pacific Crest Trail,…
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Hot Pink Tour
Adam Levin’s Hot Pink tour is kicking off this weekend. Events begin in San Francisco on February 26th, 1p.m. for the Jewish BookFest Panel at JCCSF and February 27th, 7p.m. at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. Here’s the entire schedule with…
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Author Interview App
Ron Hogan is relaunching his Beatrice website as an app that will publish transcripts of feature-length interviews with authors, along with streaming video of highlights from each conversation. In order to make the app available for free, Hogan has launched…
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We’ll Call Them Contact Zones
Based in research of museum design, and memorialization, Slot’s narrator moves inside public landmarks dedicated to various disasters—9/11, slavery, Hiroshima, the Holocaust— and explores ways memorialization acts on conscience and memory, interrogating the urge to abstract, label, and catalogue suffering.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The world’s most interesting man is no more. (via Atlas Obscura.) You guys! Steam planet! Steam planet you guys! Dept. of this-is-a-thing: Occupy Riverdale. Way to find a hidden 298 million year old forest scientists. Now let’s take a moment…
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A Narrow Slice of Things
These cactus are so phallic. This is what I say to Andrew in the early moments of what will spread into an entire February day spent wringing the narrow backroads of Puerto Rico. We’re just coming out of Arecibo after…
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I Check After…
A new Twitter project called I CHECK AFTER calls on us to list one thing we do before checking our phones and computers in the morning. If we can’t think of a single thing, it’s our chance to pledge something…
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Dan Savage Interview
Mother Jones converses with Dan Savage about his long-term vision for the “It Gets Better” campaign and his new MTV series. Savage also dishes on whether reading about “freaky stuff” makes someone freaky, and shares anxieties about Santorum’s recent surge.…
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Weekend Features
Several not-to-be-missed essays appeared over the long weekend: Julia Goldberg’s “Wrinkles and Time,” Lauren Cerand’s “On Elegance,” and Ted Wilson’s review of circles.
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LONELY VOICE #17: In Love Again and Doomed (Part Two of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)
My lung was fair at least out there, here where I’ve been for the last fortnight. I’ve not been able to see the doctor. But it can’t be so bad considering for instance that I was able – holy vanity!…
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Thoughts on DFW
Rumpus contributor Daniel Roberts has two pieces on David Foster Wallace in honor of what would have been his 50th birthday. This Berfois essay examines The Marriage Plot‘s Leonard Bankhead character as a representation of DFW. And, at Salon, Roberts…