Notable New York, This Week 8/13-8/19
This (busy!) week in NYC: MONDAY 8/13: Melville House, WORD, and The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn team up to present a Words by the Water listening party with…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The mystery of the five-fingered phantom hand. As long as we’re talking about hands, a whole bunch of ancient severed hands were just discovered in Egypt! War sand (is not…
About David Rakoff
I did not know David Rakoff, never so much as met him, and I did not know that he was in these last few weeks quite as sick as he…
Francis Ford Coppola’s TWIXT
Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film TWIXT opens in San Francisco this Friday, August 10th. Written, directed and produced by Coppola, this film represents his new code of personal filmmaking ethics:…
BECK HANSEN’S SONG READER
Beck has announced that his latest album, Song Reader, composed of “twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music” to be given life by the reader, will be released…
An Oxford American Update
Rumpus Essays Editor Roxane Gay recently posted about the troubling situation at the Oxford American in which Mark Smirnoff, the founding editor of the Oxford American, and managing editor Carol…
Steinbeck Family Outraged at Use of Lennie Small in Death Row Cases
After learning that Of Mice and Men was invoked in a Texas court to argue for the execution of the mentally impaired, John Steinbeck’s son Thomas spoke out in support of…
David Rakoff, 1964 – 2012
We’re saddened by the news that David Rakoff died today at 47. The Awl has a tribute to the “writer, aesthete, genius, New York devotee… exceptional reporter and observer, performer,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometime we have to break the rules to report that Guantanamo prisoners love the Fresh Prince. Blue whale poop is intense. While we are on the subject, here is an…
Put Some Money in the Jukebox
Today Brain Pickings launches its music-meets-literature venture, Literary Jukebox. Dubbed “an experiment in cross-pollinating the arts,” Literary Jukebox is a daily project whereby editor Maria Popova handpicks a sentence from a favored work of literature,…
Your Guide to the Literary on Tumblr
Well this is awesome: The Millions just published the mother of all literary blog round-ups. Still comprised of Tumblrs, Nick Moran expands on a round-up he did six months ago, shortly after The…