2015
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Notable San Francisco: 12/16–12/22
Wednesday 12/16: Berkeley Poetry Slam, the longest running poetry slam in Northern California, features the extraordinary Sam Sax. Sax’s rising poetic star is white hot. He is a 2015 NEA Fellow, winner of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation,…
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In Her Own Words
Over at NPR, authors Claire Vaye Watkins and Marlon James talk about Watkins’s recent essay, “On Pandering,” which she describes as: …internalizing the sexism that I’d encountered in the writing world, and the world beyond, and adjusting what I wrote…
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Unicorns, Black Holes, and Monsters
Rumpus illustrator A.D. Puchalski has two new comics available for purchase! The first, Sword of Fray, is a fun action-adventure romp about a unicorn who’s the embodiment of a black hole, an evisceration-happy cat, and a “poor sucker.” The second, Restless, is the…
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America’s “Narrow” Reading Habits
At Electric Literature, Joshua Lockwood interviews PANK‘s founding editor M. Bartley Seigel about the origins of PANK, which was sold in November and will be under new management by the end of the year. In addition, Seigel discusses what his experience as an editor taught him about…
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Feminism for All
My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all take a moment to mourn Berlin’s rolling sidewalks we could have had. Maybe it’s time for infinite sky offices? Very important cat longevity information. Hey look, parrots are using tools now too. The time has come for MRA…
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The Rumpus Interview with Laurie Foos
Laurie Foos discusses her latest novel, The Blue Girl, feminism, Michael Jackson, and mythical moon pies.
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For Everybody
…you ask them, ‘Why are you so upset?’, and they can’t answer you. For the New Yorker, Adrienne Raphael talks to linguist David Crystal about our age of abbreviation.
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Paying Authors to Appear
The British Society of Authors has called on literary festival organizers to pay authors who make appearances at events. The organization is asking that any literary festivals that charge entrance fees pay authors a minimum fee. At present, few events pay,…
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This Week in Posivibes: Ty-Rex
Super-prolific Ty Segall has released another record: a compilation of T. Rex covers that he put out over the years under the name Ty-Rex. The compilation includes a new version of “20th Century Boy” and is out via Goner Records. NME…
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The Queen(s) of Fiction
I write historical fiction. Some consider this an outré craft. If literary fiction is Brooklyn, the historical novel is Queens. Over at the New York Times’s Sunday Book Review, Geraldine Brooks pens an essay on her experience recapturing the consciousness…
