Into the Vault
I’m on a NPR Weekend Edition segment about Shakespeare’s First Folio this weekend; Scott Simon and I ventured into the vault of the Folger with library director Gail Paster. It’s…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/30-12/6
This week in San Francisco: three bicyclists make a pit stop on their 12,000 mile journey, thus taking care of your exercise quotient for the year. Also, the International Body…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #12
INTERCOURSE ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing intercourse.
Things to Think About: Publishing Links
An excellent, straight forward look at rejection: “My Horrible New York Times Review.” Michael Greenberg on “Writing & Money.” Will the legendary Elliott Bay Book Co. be forced to close…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and it’s All My Fault #13
We can cross right here. No, it’s perfectly fine. This state has a little something called pedestrian right-of-way, Doug. You can just step out into traffic whenever you want and…
Photo Contest
We’re still accepting submissions for The Adderall Diaries photo contest. Send a picture of yourself that includes The Adderall Diaries (it doesn’t have to be an actual book, though it…
Notable New York, This Week 11/30 – 12/6
This week in New York Cate Blanchett acts in A Streetcar Named Desire, John Ashbery and Paul Auster read, Mike Daisey monologizes, an n+1 panel discusses feminism and love, Sherman…
Morning Coffee
Octopus pulp covers. I heart you internet. Expert in alienation, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore subpoenaed in World of Warcraft law suit. Patent for a “fabricated baked potato” (via Alexis Madrigal)…
The Rumpus Interview with Cyberpunk Richard Kadrey
The last time I saw you, in 2000, we were in a hotel room in Pittsburgh; one of us was naked and there was a beautiful, heavily tattooed girl handcuffed…
The Vision To Depict It Their Way
“’The exhibition is framed to be about limits and what can be done within them,’ said Lawrence Rinder, the director of the Berkeley Art Museum, who was a juror for…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Just one for tonight, and I doubt that the site I’m linking to will even notice the hits we send his way–in fact, there’s a strong possibility that everyone who…