CA$H 4 GOLD
I will not end up like these woman, I promise myself, left behind and living in some suburb. I will not be anyone’s baby. I will be a real artist instead, a writer.
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2017
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Not Your Auntie
What I need is for white people to stop calling the Honorable Representative Maxine Waters “Auntie.” For real. It needs to stop.
Notable San Francisco: 11/1–11/7
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
The Strain of Reality: Reset by Ellen Pao
A woman is simultaneously too many things and not enough at all, forcing her vibrancy to smudge into an opaque blur.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On the street chairs of Beirut. Maybe we can learn something from the Las Vegas shooter’s brain? The art of the fang. Look I’m not saying this is Atlantis but…
A Hinging Thing: Talking with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new collection Good Bones, how motherhood has changed her writing, and what it felt like to have a poem go viral.
Album of the Week: Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights
"Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. You can’t just always let go."
The Peep King’s Legacy: A Family Portrait
The day after Hugh Hefner died, I received a text from my sister that our grandfather was starring alongside James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal in HBO's new series, The Deuce.
Notable Philadelphia: 10/31–11/6
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!