Next Letter for Kids: Elise Gravel
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Elise Gravel! Elise writes to us about one of her favorite things about her home city of Montreal—the alleyways! They are full of…
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Repel the Wind
Why would I ask for my sanity from the Devil as I sleep walk, only to give it up again to the Holy Spirit?
Notable San Francisco: 6/7–6/13
Wednesday 6/7: Jess Arndt reads from her short fiction debut, Large Animals. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore. Robert Hass, Douglas Manuel, and Charles Hood read from, discuss, and sign their…
This Week in Essays
For The Smart Set, Natasha Burge walks the streets of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and examines the ways both cities and selves can change through time. In this latest Multitudes installment for The…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Radical developments in the way we look at ancient poo. Noor Inayat Khan is the forgotten WWII heroine you’ve been looking for. Important news: the Australian Ocean is filled with…
Little Seizures of Grief: Talking with Gary Lutz
Gary Lutz talks about his latest collection of short stories, Assisted Living, the author’s right of way, and the sentence.
Album of the Week: To Syria, With Love by Omar Souleyman
Before becoming one of the most praised electronic music producers of the last few years, Omar Souleyman was a successful wedding singer in his homeland Syria, with something like five…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 14): “Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank”
...being on the edge of the natural world is like being on the edge of time.
Notable Philadelphia: 6/6–6/12
Tuesday 6/6: Drunk spelling bee. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Pub on Passyunk. Wednesday 6/7: Raunchy: Adult Dirty Embroidery Workshop. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lume Studios, $25.
This Week in Indie Bookstores
A Kansas bookstore has sold a lot more than books to survive its 125 years. A French bookseller has turned a tiny house into a tiny bookstore and plans to…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I was in Arcata yesterday which meant I totally missed Dead Duck Day! The cosmos is filled with gravitational waves I guess. What the world needs more of is the…
Swinging Modern Sounds #81: On Cultural Preservation
The Lost Boys had their moment in the media, but these people, these survivors, not boys at all and not lost now either, are still here, living lives, growing and changing and thinking and reflecting.