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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh THAT’S where we put that navy tugboat. Oh THAT’S where we put that Himmler’s occult book stash. Jokes as neurological disorder. Today in not very surprising news: you’re more honest with your phone than your doctor. Look, I’m not…
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Albums of Our Lives: The Mountain Goats’s The Sunset Tree
I knew if I could make it out of town, make it to college, I would survive. But I wasn’t sure I would.
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Oyeyemi’s Luminous Universe
Author Laura van den Berg has glowing words about Helen Oyeyemi’s short story collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. In her New York Times book review, van den Berg writes: “A collection is, by my lights, a chance…
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Public Poetry
I’m interested in Roland Barthes’s idea that mythology is essentially a type of speech, and that speech defines a culture. Poetry can define the dominant languages we have in culture—and now those languages are advertising and the news media. So…
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Joe Corré and Claiming Punk
Joe Corré, co-founder of Agent Provocateur lingerie and son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, has once again raised the issue of what it means to “claim” punk: in what he has said would be a protest of the Queen…
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The Great Gorsky
At the Guardian, Serbian-born novelist Vesna Goldsworthy explains how the “strong plot” and structure of The Great Gatsby influenced her novel about Russian oligarchs: I know—especially for some Americans—I’ve trodden upon holy ground by reworking what is for them the literary equivalent of the stars and…
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Next Letter for Kids: Rebecca Behrens
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Rebecca Behrens! Rebecca writes to us all about manatees! She also includes photographs and drawings of manatees! She loves them and after reading her letter, you’ll love them too. Don’t miss out on this letter—subscribe today! For…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #23: Plays to Devour on the Page and the Stage
Of course it’s tremendous to see a play on stage, but reading a play, its script, is a pleasure in its own right. I think for many of us the notion of reading plays was ruined in high school, what…
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Notable San Francisco: 3/23–3/29
Wednesday 3/23: The MFA Reading Series at the University of San Francisco presents Louise Glück. Free, 7:45 p.m., University of San Francisco. Galeria de la Raza’s Lunada Literary Lounge helps to keep the spirit of the Mission alive with “the Bay Area’s…
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Lovely in Person and on the Page
The deeper I get into this life of writing and making things, the more I understand that I don’t know. … As long as I feel like I’m trying to speak as much truth as I possibly can, and people…
