2014
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Notable San Francisco: 12/17–12/23
Wednesday 12/17: Fourteen Hills launches issue 21.1 with readings by contributors Chris Ames, Matthew Clark Davison, Arthur Isaac Hofmayer, Ashley K. Nelson, Jahla Seppanen, and Matthew Zapruder (Free, 7 p.m., Viracocha). The Kinda Late Show w/Broke-Ass Stuart returns with a…
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Over 300 Characters
At Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert’s finally collected what we never knew we needed: a compendium of the year’s most essential literary tweets.
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The Clash of Civilizations
This past weekend saw the convergence of two disparate groups of people in New York City: the #MillionsMarch civil rights protesters and SantaCon participants. Laina Dawes takes a look at the two different groups over at Refinery29. Meanwhile, the drunk…
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Duchamp, [Redacting], and Readymades
The latest release from Gauss PDF, Marcel Duchamp’s The [Creative] Act, turns the Dada mastermind’s short lecture into a madlib-like text, rife with lacunae for reader participation and the sort of “No Image Available” error messages that indicate image errors…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Climate change is filling the world with grolar bears. The future of elevators is (almost) upon us. Also: male birth control pills are (maybe) (almost) ready. Here’s some midcentury book design for you. It’s almost 2015, so that means it’s time…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alix Lambert
Director Alix Lambert talks about her documentary, Mentor, small-town conformity, and bullying in the digital age.
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Between the Lines
While some bibliophiles hold books as sacred artworks to be carefully preserved, others can’t read without a little back-and-forth. Laura Miller makes a case for defacing pages: Marginalia is a blow struck against the idea that reading is a one-way…
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Loosen the Reins
To an outside observer, it might appear that my father approached death the same way he did life: With a heavy hand and a critical gaze. It may seem like his pride and stubbornness made something difficult — dying —…
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Peter Maresca on the Sunday Funnies
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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Anderson Doesn’t “Cut and Paste”
In an interview for NPR, director Paul Thomas Anderson shares his experience adapting Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice for the big screen: I approached it in the most straightforward but laborious way I could come up with. I transcribed the dialogue… And there were…
