“One man’s Shakespeare is another man’s trash fiction.”
“As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.” That’s Vladimir Nabokov taking down Papa in…
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National Poetry Month: Day 20. “Something In the Water” by Alison Pelegrin
Something in the Water Verboten, casual, Katrina-slash-this-is-the-writer’s-life poem, another rule breaker best abandoned. At sea. Overboard in a wine bottle, in a milk jug float.
Morning Coffee
Apple employee inadvertently reveals the next generation iPhone by losing a prototype in a bar. Also, in future news, did you hear that the guy who lost the new iPhone in…
Swinging Modern Sounds #21: On William Basinski
William Basinski was born in Texas in 1958, and, after a childhood playing wind instruments, he became in the early-eighties a composer of ambient and minimalist compositions.
PEN World Voices Event in Berkeley
Just a small addendum to Notable San Francisco this week: there’s an interesting event in Berkeley on Wednesday night at 7:30. PEN World Voices, with the assistance of Berkeley Arts…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/19-4/25
This week, celebrate Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and San Francisco’s spectacular art scene. Also, feel smarter with Ransom Stephens, and pay homage to the Reubenesque figure at Hot.Fat.Femmes! Monday…
Do We Get Jetpacks This Time?
A New Scientist Histories column from ’05 noted that the last really huge volcanic eruption led to the invention of the bicycle:
Water the Moon
In the strongest poems in Water the Moon, the complex relationships between language and image underscore Sze-Lorrain’s themes of alienation and homelessness in a way that allows the reader to…
“This is a nice way of saying we have lied.”
“If we are true to ourselves as dramatists, we will cheat and lie and pile one fraud upon the next, given that with every scene, we make fictional characters say…
Please Read the Letter That I Wrote
Starved for funds, the United States Postal Service recently considered cutting its mail delivery service down to five-days a week–not a huge surprise considering their losses over the last couple…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #32
CHUCK MURPHY REVIEWS THE WORLD ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing “Chuck Murphy Reviews the…