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That Rolling Stone Article
Although it has stirred up controversy with its cover photo, the Rolling Stone article about alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is honest and interesting and frustrating and perplexing. How did a kid who seemed so sweet and laid-back to his friends…
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Notable San Francisco 7/22-7/27
Monday 7/22: Free comedy at the Night Light in Jack London Square at 8pm, followed by music from CORIMA and Morning Hands. 8pm. Tuesday 7/23: Inside Story Time presents Nina Schuyler, Samuel Sattin, Liz Henry and Leah Umansky. $5, 7:15…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Look. It was a nasty weekend. We both said some things we didn’t mean. Let’s just put it behind us with the weekend Rumpus roundup (though that was still a pretty perverted thing you did). Who knew that, upon finding…
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Nick Cave Monday #45: “Do You Love Me?”
Falling in love is a putrid, vile mind space filled with demons. It’s also an angel glowing in white light luring you into her. Let’s explore love, Bad Seeder style. One quick announcement, Nick Cave Monday ends at #52, so…
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Notable New York: 07/22-07/28
MONDAY 07.22 The 92nd St. Y presents two literary heavyweights on Monday. Martin Amis and Ian McEwan will talk about their friendship, careers, and respective work. The event will be introduced by Salman Rushdie. Kaufman Concert Hall, 8pm, $32+. PowerHouse…
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“The Czar and the Poet”
When the people followed the Communists at the beginning of the twentieth century, they gave up Christ, but they found it impossible, as the revolutionary poets exhorted them, “to throw Pushkin overboard the steamboat of modernity.” Prominent Russian writer Mikhail…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is on tour with his band for the next three plus weeks, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. Brighten up your day with a little color! Mesmermize yourself with a kaleidoscopic take on metropolitan…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Painting a Week
“I’d wanted to be a writer for so long the dream was part of me, like an organ, an extra heart…Only one thing was missing. I wasn’t writing.”
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Lit-Link Round-up
12 Amazing Staircases around the world. LitReactor is rocking it on craft essays. Their most recent newsletter groups together 10 of the best. Steve Almond’s open letter to his daughter, about love. Sandie Friedman’s essay on “the unlived life” at The…
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Links I Like
I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about the Zimmerman verdict. I recommend Roxane Gay’s How America Profiled Trayvon Martin and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Karen Bender’s What Great Writing Can Teach Us About Trayvon Martin. Read bell hooks Was Right.…
