Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/8-8/14
This week in San Francisco… Monday, August 8: Wake up! Resist the urge to go home and sleep off the day by starting the week off strong, preferably by cracking…
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Emmy Komada
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Emmy Komada is a translator and assistant editor at Two Lines Press, part of the Center for the Art of Translation. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Take THAT, mind bending microcosmos. Finally, our very own mini-me’s. Does this mean we all have to reassess the importance our moon signs? Alien hunt on earth? Psshh I’ve been…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Pooh Prescribed. You’ve wondered. Don’t lie. People looking sweaty vs. chic or me, pre vs. post caffeine. Squid, reanimated. Not for the squeamish.
Notable San Francisco 8/1-8/6
This week in San Francisco, it’s the first week of the month, so that means a lot of (free!?!!) stuff to get to. It’s also August, so here’s to some…
Take A Break For Some Tabloid History
The philosophy guiding a great deal of mainstream media, that the public “likes entertainment better than it likes information,” is something I hear people gripe over when forced to watch…
We Are All Fetishizing
Should the backlash (by some) against the move towards e-readers and digitized literature be kept…behind closed doors? An opinion piece in the NYT is convinced that arguments-by prominent politicians, historians,…
Hey, We Do This Too
We’re not the only ones out there curious to know where and writers write and why. This week the Chicago Tribune spoke to bestselling and award winning authors to get…
A Romance Novel Health Scare
For the most part, a quick glance at the cover of any romance novel is all it takes to reveal the formula that’s inside. For better or worse, it’s a…
What Would A Kid Say About Go the Fuck to Sleep?
Seems like big kids and parents alike are getting a lot of writing mileage out of Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach’s playfully honest plea to his daughter to…
E-Publishers’ Guides to Writing Books
Ever heard of this guy? Chances are you haven’t, but one peek at that link will show you just how much you’re missing out on. Manuel Ortiz Braschi is one…
Old Books with New Tricks
The Wasteland, complete with new apps for the contemporary reader, replaced a Marvel comic as an iPad top seller recently. This week, On the Road shuffles its way onto the…
What’s in a (pseudo)Name
Carmela Ciuraru finds a great many reasons for writing under a pseudonym– taking under analysis a reasonable desire to separate a personal from a public persona, living out a fantasy…