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Weekend Essay Round-Up
We published so much good content this weekend, we hope you didn’t miss it. But just in case: Amber Sparks considers how religion can fuel one’s writing—even when the writer is secular. Thomas Page McBee gives us another “Self-Made Man,” further…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/6-8/12
This week in NYC: MONDAY 8/6: Patti Smith reads from Woolgathering at Books Beneath the Bridge, followed by an interview with Ezra Goldstein, of Community Bookstore, and a signing. Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 8/7: WORD launches…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I don’t know if this is the best place to post it, but Tig Notaro is the best person in the world. This is how it starts you guys. Rebel astronauts are the reason I get up in the morning.…
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My Mother Always Told Me Nice Is As Nice Does
At Slate, yesterday, Jacob Silverman wrote a piece denouncing the pernicious trend of “enthusiasm” he detects in the online literary universe. (BREAKING: People might still like and read books.) He holds up the writer Emma Straub’s Twitter feed as exhibit…
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Surreal Stories for Kids
“Tiny walruses in nutshells, talking slugs — what’s not to like?” At Wired, Jonathan H. Liu reviews three new McMullens picture books, all of which sport elaborately designed dust jackets that open up as posters.
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“Things I wouldn’t otherwise say”
“Letters are a slow-motion conversation, one where every word matters and you carefully consider what you want to say. One where discussions evolve over the course of months rather than hours and days.” Over at xoJane, an ode to writing…
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Sweet Spot Sugar
After attending our release party for Tiny Beautiful Things, Ginger Murray of SF Weekly‘s The Sweet Spot channels Dear Sugar in her response to a young man seeking advice on desperation and romance. “…In honor of Cheryl Strayed, her fans…
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Praise For Dispatch From The Future
This month’s Rumpus Book Club selection – Leigh Stein’s Dispatch from the Future – gets an outstanding review from Guernica Magazine: “Stein’s poems are the very perfect product of a frenetic in-between culture where knowledge is currency but also poverty, and its…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Evidently Peruvians are the best at not getting rabies. Important news: squids be crazy. Neil deGrasse Tyson is everyone’s hero. I guess it is time to revolutionize archeological mapping. Its Friday, so here is my favorite picture this week.
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What To Do With An MFA
Over at The Millions, writer Nick Ripatrazone offers his advice on what to do once you’ve graduated with a MFA: teach high school. Ripatrazone makes the argument that a career in secondary education can often times be a more conducive…
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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT STEVE ALMOND’S TAXES
“Further questions should be referred to my accountant, the aforementioned Marty, who is no longer employed by H&R Block and who was, last time I checked, living in a small cardboard domicile outside Davis Square.” In response to Mitt Romney’s…
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Help Support The Grimaldis
Bay Area local Dane Ballard is the writer and producer of The Grimaldis, a musical about the decline of a show-biz family: “For generations, the Grimaldi family has thrilled audiences the world over. From the opera houses of old Europe to America’s…