Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is away this week. We’ll do our best to get the day started without him. Shower optional: artist documents water balloons exploding on bald women’s heads. Maybe these…
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Caroline Kangas
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Caroline Kangas calls both Seattle and San Francisco home (though she currently resides in the latter). She recently received a mouthful of a liberal arts degree from the University of San Francisco and can be found selling pirate supplies at 826 Valencia or wandering the streets with her diva of a french bulldog, Elle.
Musings on the Life of the Writer
At The Millions, Emily St. John Mandel offers a peek into her writing world via tangential authors Susanna Moore and our very own Cheryl Strayed. She reposts Cheryl’s Facebook status…
“Children have a right to free time, to play games in the afternoon.”
Gawker reports on a high-school in Germany that has put a moratorium on homework for younger students in response to the state’s new policy keeping students in school 44 hours…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is away this week. We’ll do our best to get the day started without him. A documentary from Thailand with elephant peg legs. Dumpster diving artists are turning trash into…
The Future of StoryTelling
On October 5th, a collection of speakers presented their use of technology in modern day storytelling. Featuring innovations beyond flourishy eBooks, the fifteen short films featured on The Future of Storytelling’s…
“No good writer ever merely cheered us up”
Howard Jacobson writes on “bad boys’ books,” making a case for depressing and difficult literature. He argues that all good books improve the character of the reader, even those that…
New Dictionaries reveal a different liberal and conservative battle
In David Skinner’s The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published we learn about the radical Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language. The…
“My algorithm told me to arrest this man!”
The Wall Street Journal reviews Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, by Christopher Steiner. “In the mid-1970s, Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT railed against depriving humans of their capacity…
What’s behind the Music
In his article “Forgetting the Roots: Does it Matter Who Makes Folk Music?” Taylor Coe explores the importance of history for folk musicians and how their creation stories can influence their…
The real Tom Sawyer was a San Francisco Fireman
Not to mention a Mission Street Saloon owner, civil servant, and hero. The Smithsonian Magazine reports on a real-life Tom Sawyer who was one of Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) drinking…
“This is What the Depression Sounded Like”
Aldo Leopold, ecologist and author of Sand County Almanac took such detailed notes each morning from his back porch that researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have created his “resurrected soundscape” with digital…
Two Dollar Radio launches Frequencies
“Scheduled to publish new volumes every Spring and Fall, Frequencies is a journal imprint of Two Dollar Radio that aims to champion artful or creative non-fiction that aggressively asserts the…