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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 Looking Indian), Mathhue Roth (Losers), and Polly Bresnick (Old Gus…
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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 Live Story Show on Thursday, July 12th! Here’s the deal:…
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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 day to talk about animal sex.
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“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 and comfortable when really what’s happening inside of them is…
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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 save the idea until publishing grows up.” Now it has: The…
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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 life in peace… He reads every day and is with…
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“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 About Coming Out?”
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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!
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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. Tuesday 7/10: G. Willow Wilson reads from Alif the Unseen,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope all our Brooklyn friends are enjoying the pop-up beach and pool. Wired looks at the great science books (so you don’t have to). NASA is ready to move the earth, if that’s a thing we ever need to…
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A Few Other Saturday Links
It’s too hot to write much. Days like this are better for reading, and I have some eighty-year-old love letters calling my name. I can’t offer you those, but here are other things you can read while reclining with a…
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Richard Brautigan’s Poems On Seed Packets
I have been trying, and mostly failing, to grow wildflowers in my rocky, slug-filled backyard here in Queens. I am not a gardener; I’m indifferent to everything below cats on the food chain, as a general rule. You have to…