November 2012
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An American In Jerusalem
Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick took a year off to live with her family in Israel and work on a book about the US Supreme Court. Then the current conflict started. She writes about her experience in a piece titled “I Didn’t…
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Here is New York
I understood the impulse to go outside and have sex on the bridge in the middle of the hurricane, because it’s an exaggerated version of the impulse to move to New York at all. This place is a city full…
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Literary Vending Machine
In Toronto, The Monkey’s Paw, like many used-book stores, was unsure what to do with that cart of discounted books that nobody seemed to want. So proprietor Stephen Fowler came up with the “Biblio-Mat,” a retro contraption where customers insert…
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When Fiction becomes Life
Mark O’Connell tells a fascinating story in The Millions about his encounter with a recently released murderer, Malcolm MacArthur. O’Connell grew up hearing and reading stories about MacArthur murders, but his favorite is a fictional novel, The Book of Evidence, whose…
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Happy Baby in Los Angeles
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “HAPPY BABY IN LOS ANGELES” A Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus! December 7th, 7pm at Fix Coffee, 2100 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Doors at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm.…
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“Lionel Asbo: State of England,” by Martin Amis
Martin Amis’s latest novel Lionel Asbo is a shallow book that sparkles with moments of profundity. The farcical content is evident from the cover of its British edition where a full-length portrait of the title character shows a muscular man…
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Works in Progress
No matter where technology is now, it feels good to see a tangible thought process–edited, erased, written over, scratched out, or even completed. Artist Alejandro Guijarro’s current show documents the blackboards of quantum mechanics calculations in various stages of progress.…
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Go Domingo Martinez!
Last week was the National Book Foundation Awards Ceremony. At The Millions, Bill Morris narrates the event and cheers on underdog Domingo Martinez, author of the memoir The Boy Kings of Texas who lost in the non-fiction category to Kathrine…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes you need to take a step back, breathe, and appreciate how awesome the Kepler Telescope has been. Other times you just want to look at Mexican b-movie posters. We here at Morning Coffee endorse any and all book vending…
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OG DAD #13: My Baby Does The Hanky-Panky
As if the recent presidential campaign was not disturbing enough, in the middle of it, my five month old morphed into Donald Trump.
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Chased By Bees – m4w – 45
Every Sunday, James the Stanton of Gnartoons posts an episode of Missed Connection Comix at San Francisco blog Uptown Almanac. The strip takes missed connection posts from Craigslist—the guy who fancied a girl at his CPR class, the woman looking…
