What Really Happened? We Still Don’t Know
At The New Yorker, novelist and Pulitzer Prize jury member Michael Cunningham has written a two-part essay about why there was no Prize awarded for fiction this year for the first time…
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Gender and the Job
“It’s hard to imagine a young woman’s stripper story serving as an allegory to critique capitalism: woman loses home in foreclosure so now she loses her bra.” At The New Inquiry,…
FUNNY WOMEN #83: Rejection Letter
Certainly you are aware that Haughty is the largest magazine in the world, so we must assume that your submission was a mistake.
Notable New York, This Week 7/9-7/15
This week in NYC: MONDAY 7/9: This month at the Franklin Park reading series: Mark Leyner (The Sugar Frosted Nutsack), Eric Sasson (Margins of Tolerance), Rupinder Gill (On the Outside…
Come Hear Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life
You’re in San Francisco, no? And you like stories? Very brief ones? About Jewish life? Told live? Who doesn’t? Regardless of your answers to those questions, come to the SMITH…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Have to keep things simple today. Here is a luminescent map of all of the world’s earthquakes since 1898. Reconstructing dinosaurs vocal chords (because duh). Every day is a good…
“We all really want love, big time”
At Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory talks with Cheryl Strayed about finding beauty in ugliness, Sugar as her best self, and our universal troubles. “We all assume other people are feeling confident…
Multicolored The Sound and the Fury Finally Published
When William Faulkner originally published The Sound and the Fury, he wished Benjy’s narrative could be printed in different colors to denote different time periods, lamenting that “I’ll just have to…
García Márquez Has Dementia
The New York Times shares some sad news: Gabriel García Márquez has dementia, according to his brother Jaime. “He is no longer writing and is simply living this stage of…
“I Feel Like a Free Man”
In case you missed it, read Frank Ocean’s moving letter in which he reveals that his first love was a man. Colorlines asks, “How Will Frank Ocean Change Our Conversation…
Sullivan Link Love
At The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan linked to last week’s essay by Dylan Nice, “Truth in Nonfiction: A Testimonial.” Thanks, Andrew, we love you back!
Notable San Francisco 7/9-7/15
This Week in San Francisco. Monday 7/9: “Alternate reality comedy” finds its home in the Eric Andre show, which films a rare live set at the Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $10.…