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The Cleverest Man in the World
Donald Sturrock’s biography of Roald Dahl bridges the gap between the literary impresario and the troubled man.
Ari Messer: The Last Book I Loved, Ablutions
Why is the second person such a natural and addictive tense–perhaps the only honest one–when writing about drug abuse and a foggy recovery? For years, you haven’t been able to…
Febos and Marcus on Memiorville
In this conversation, Melissa Febos makes a good point: What’s great about writers talking with writers is that they talk about writing.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day, another batch of Census of Marine Life photos. Lydia Davis on translation. (we are intellectuals.) This is what the internet has come to: famous graphic novels as dime-store…
RECESSION SEX WORKERS #11: Angela Eve’s Bohemian Hustle
Angela Eve and I work together at a topless joint on Bourbon Street. We spoke in the locker room while she brushed her hair and I applied gloppy eyelash glue.…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/4-10/10
This week in San Francisco, get your book on every night of the week with Litquake, Dave Cooper at the Cartoon Art Museum, the centennial episode of Literary Death Match,…
Get a Tattoo AND Books For Life!
You a fan of the publisher Two Dollar Radio? Want a free lifetime subscription to all their books? All you have to do is tattoo their logo onto your body…
Meghan Blalock’s Social Network
Meghan Blalock responds to today Daily Rumpus Email which concerned the new movie, The Social Network. ** The problem with David Carr’s rundown in the Times is that it assumes…
Dale Peck Gets Freedom: A Subjective Account of the Mischief + Mayhem Party
Writers came out on 9/28/2010 to celebrate the launch of Mischief + Mayhem, an imprint affiliated with OR Books and a collective of five writers: Dale Peck, Lisa Dierbeck, Joshua…
Notable New York, This Week 10/4 – 10/10
This week in New York Joyce Carol Oates goes Sour, Adult Education presents “The Future of Books,” Cunningham reads By Nightfall, David Marson is remembered, Winner and Clarke come together…