Columns
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“A Note to Parents”
“I am a storyteller. I write books for kids, I talk to kids, and I listen to kids. But that is not all that I am. Several years ago I was diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive and manic-depressive. Those challenges have led…
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eBook Wars
“Lab 126, the division of Amazon responsible for building the Kindle, has been on a hiring binge, with dozens of new job listings on its Web site. Some are positions for testing and readying new products. And this suggests that…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/18 – 5/23
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth read, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) performs with PiL, MobyLives presents book trailer awards, One Story holds a Debutante Ball, Jewcy presents readings by Rachel…
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Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known world, sweet-ass spike-nosed frog. (updated with actual link, not coworkers address.) This is an article about bat fellatio. Outdated cities of the future. Oh hey telephone sheep, what’s up? We should probably stop linking to things…
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Notable San Francisco, this Week: 5/17-5/23
This week, wood block prints, films about farms, have a nerd-gasm at Cory Doctorow’s EFF reading at 111 Minna, see suspense-master Palahniuk at the Swedish American Music Hall, and get queer at RADAR’s fundraiser with Michelle Tea and Heklina. Monday…
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Pitt on Parker and Parker on Pitt
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well. Part I and Part II
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Pitt on Parker
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #36
TRACING PAPER ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tracing paper.
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“There are many versions of Emily Dickinson to choose from.”
“I was a bookish, verse-writing odd-fit kid with authority issues, looking for a hero. By a hero I mean someone you admire but, more than that, identify with and somehow want to be. In Dickinson I found what I was…