Olympians Crash Grindr
Popular gay dating app Grindr crashed “within minutes” of the arrival of Olympic teams in London today — due to the spike in demand. “It happened almost as soon as…
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Love in Lake Forest
At The Paris Review, Rumpus contributor Jason Diamond wonders about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s repeated references to Lake Forest, Illinois, determining that the city’s significance derived from the fact that it…
Notable San Francisco 7/23/-7/29
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 7/23: Paula Priamos and Dana Johnson read from recently released acclaimed SoCal-culture narratives The Shyster’s Daughter and Elsewhere, CA. Free, 7pm, Books Inc. Opera…
Albert Camus: Solitude and Solidarity
LA Review of Books’ Robert Zaretsky reviews Albert Camus: Solitude and Solidarity: “…the book is a remarkable effort at recapturing — or, for many readers, simply capturing for the first…
Notable New York, This Week 7/23-7/29
This week in NYC: MONDAY 7/23: Fluxblog celebrates 10 years of mp3 blogging at Housing Works Bookstore Café. Rob Sheffield, Mark Richardson, Emily Gould, Amanda Petrusich, Dick Valentine of Electric…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is some psychedelic 1930s Japanese children’s illustration to start your week. Dolphins are better at math than I am. I am glad to know that someone is preserving Luke…
Aurora Shooting Roundup
Our thoughts are with the victims of today’s tragedy: 12 people were killed and 59 wounded by gunman at a movie theater outside of Denver, Colorado early this morning during…
Who’s the Fairest Skater of Them All?
The New Yorker‘s James Guida comments on Transworld Skateboarding‘s 30th anniversary interviews with skating legends from across skateboarding’s long history. Guida sees the project as a kind of oral history,…
Tiny Beautiful Things, Best Seller!
Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s newly released collection of Dear Sugar columns, debuts at number five on The New York Times Paperback Advice Best Seller list! Hooray! To order the book…
Olympic Art
England has some great artwork in the mix for the London Cultural Olympiad, which coincides with the start of the Games later this month: Nowhereisland: Alex Hartley, an artist known…
Help Tomorrow Now!
Early last month GOOD magazine fired its entire editorial staff and instead of receding into the dismal ether of unemployment, the ex-GOOD magaziners banned together to make a single issue…
“What happens when velocity gives out”
“In the end, what makes ‘A Hologram for the King’ is the conviction with which Eggers plunges into the kind of regular working American we don’t see enough in contemporary…