Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So… The race to be the oldest Everest scaler has ended tragically. On the rise of 21st Century television’s female gaze. Sometimes you just want to talk about the music…
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2017
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Where You Put It on the Line: A Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
Mychal Denzel Smith discusses his debut nonfiction book Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, how the activist space has changed in recent years, and who he is writing for.
Next Letter for Kids: Jason Fry
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jason Fry! Jason writes to us about his weird hobby of making baseball cards for the Mets players that don’t have official baseball…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 12): “Shine, Perishing Republic”
Vive le resistance déjà vu, you say? Are we only a nation that forgets, a United States of Obliviousness?
Notable Philadelphia: 5/9–5/15
Tuesday 5/9: You Can’t Kill a Poet: Three Year Anniversary Compilation. Featuring: Berry Grass, Emma Sanders, Jessica Levine, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, Lauren Yates, Alina Pleskova, Zach Blackwood, and Julia Perch. 8 p.m.…
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Books Are Magic opens in Brooklyn, making Emma Straub the latest author to open a bookstore. Turkish police arrested seven teachers at a bookstore in a raid against dissent. A Houston bookstore…
The Otherworldly Intrigue of Daisy Johnson’s Fen
As a reader, the world of Fen won’t leave you. That is Johnson’s power as a writer—she creates a dark, self-aware world that feels heavy and gray and covered in mist.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
All I ask is that someone out there buy me Shel Silverstein’s houseboat. Time for a little killer whale vs great shark action I think. Let’s discuss sensory-substitution devices and…
Spotlight: “My 30-Second Meditation” by Olivia de Recat
“My 30-Second Meditation” is an account of a recent attempt at a 30-minute self-guided meditation. On a totally unrelated note, how good is Sterling K. Brown in This Is Us?
Next Letter in the Mail: Dan Bransfield
Our next Letter in the Mail comes from writer and artist Dan Bransfield! Dan writes a gorgeously illustrated letter about summer in San Francisco while on an “urban hike.” To make…
TORCH: Blood Trauma
But still: A pattern. The trauma had been diluted by time. But, it was still present, still discernible, in my blood.
Notable Los Angeles: 5/8–5/14
Monday 5/8: Write Club Chapter 63: Better Off Fed. Featuring Moramarco, Brian Sonia Wallace, Rachel Kann, Tanya White, Amy Gonzales, and Yelena Litvak. Co-hosted by Justin Welborn, Paula Killen, and Jeff…