April 2014
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #230
EASTER 2014 ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Easter 2014.
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Exploring San Francisco with Gary Kamiya
This week, San Francisco’s Hattery will host Gary Kamiya, cofounder of Salon.com and author of Cool, Gray City of Love (2013), an exploration of San Francisco from 49 different perspectives. Kamiya divided San Francisco into a grid during his journey uncovering…
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/21–4/27
Monday 4/21: Tony Fletcher presents and signs Boy About Town: A Memoir. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup. Morley reads from If You’re Reading This, There’s Still Time. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Tuesday 4/22: The Write Read presents a night…
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National Poetry Month Day 21: “War With Computers” by Jill McDonough
War with Computers “We don’t make war with computers.” —Captain Kirk in Star Trek, “A Taste of Armageddon,” 1966 Now we hover at 5000 feet. It’s not a fair fight, but IEDs aren’t fair, either. We watch day and night.…
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A Reader’s Imaginative Freedom is Absolute
Reading is a private activity, even as it allows us to commune with the mind and imagination of an author we will probably never meet. Yet because reading a great book can be so overwhelmingly gratifying and transformative, many of…
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip by Kevin Brockmeier
Sean Carman reviews A FEW SECONDS OF RADIANT FILMSTRIP by Kevin Brockmeier today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus—founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of Pavement, one of the most critically and publicly adored bands in indie rock history—talks about his recent years with the Jicks, writing riffs, and not dwelling on the past.
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Remembering Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude author Gabriel García Márquez passed away last week at the age of 87. Writing in the New Yorker, Edwidge Danticat reflects on his life and work. I am often surprised when people talk about the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Bonnie and Clyde ambush was 80 years ago this week (also it turns out they were very short)! So, how close are we REALLY from finding life on other planets? Exploring the abandoned metro stations of Barcelona. Speaking of:…
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National Poetry Month Day 20: “Google Search: ‘Julie Marie Wade’” by Julie Marie Wade
Google Search: “Julie Marie Wade” I am dead in Mississippi— dead & Catholic. A cheerleading coach who passed suddenly on Wednesday night from “causes unknown.” In Oxford, they mourn with a funeral mass, send flowers to the family that survives…
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Notable NYC: 4/19–4/25
Saturday 4/19: Chris Sylvester, Holly Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Jordan Dunn, and Eddie Hopely read at part three of the Brooklyn Poetry Summit. BookThugNation, 7:30 p.m., free. David Abel, Anna Vitale, Dana Ward, and Suzanne Stein close out the Brooklyn Poetry…
