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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s…
Wildlife Incursions into Modern Cover Design
Julian Montague is an artist and graphic designer living in Buffalo. I have long followed Julian’s Daily Book Graphics series, and I am excited to present here his own designs…
Ad Blocking
With the days of frantically clicking away pop ups behind us, ad-blocking software may seem like the perfect way to view your favorite sites in peace. And yet, as Ken…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #27
ABRACADABRA ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing abracadabra.
Ryan Clark: The Last Book I Loved, Where I Was From
One of the best things about reading Joan Didion is her honesty, the fact that she hasn’t forgotten the uncertainty that comes from being young, or just how hard it…
The Underground Scene
(Thames Tunnel as it appeared on Friday, via Flickr.) Oh, how I wish I was in London this weekend…
Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #24
There’s no such thing as a bad neighborhood when you’ve got a purple belt in taekwondo, Doug. More.
Resident Bohemians: Steve Lewis, The Significant Other
The last installment of this series, which focused on the artists, writers and filmmakers in residence at the Chelsea Hotel, ends on a piece written by a man who has helped…
Morning Coffee
Farewell ABE. (bonus sublink: the 50 best robots ever.) Fine BBC reportage: zebra stares into the mouth of death. I would like very much to live inside Ken Russell’s 1950s…