Notable San Francisco: 7/2-7/8
This Week in San Francisco –welcome to July, y’all. Monday 7/2: Quiet Lightning, San Francisco’s mix-tape-reading that publishes as a monthly journal, is on at Galería de la Raza. Featuring…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/2-7/8
This week in NYC: Very little. I suppose there’s a holiday happening. MONDAY 7/2: László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, gives a rare reading at HousingWorks Bookstore Café, followed by a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope everyone enjoyed their leap second this weekend. Terrifying: Switzerland unveils the first open air double-decker cable car. Let’s take a look at the menus of every single US…
Today I Will Let You Have Your Saturday To Yourself
Friends, comrades, Rumpusers (Rumpusans? Rumpaloompas? Sorry), I am taking a mental health day today. However! I did write something about Sheila Heti’s new book for Slate this week that you…
“The Search for Decolonial Love”
In an extensive two–part Boston Review interview, Paula M.L. Moya talks with Junot Díaz about race and gender in his writing, emotional decolonization, and Monstro, his novel in progress. “There’s that…
Andrew Orvedahl Show
Andrew Orvedahl, comedian, Rumpus friend, and creator of The Narrators, is performing on Friday and Saturday at Punch Line San Francisco. You can purchase tickets here.
Back to the Foto
Irina Wernings’ photography collections, Back to the Future 1 & 2, are hilarious and heartwarming time-machinery: Just look at this! And that!
Zapruder on San Francisco
Living in San Francisco “can be like being in a relationship with someone who is moody in an exciting and ultimately harmless way”, according to Matthew Zapruder, an SF poet,…
Brain Pickings
Brain Pickings made a New Year’s resolution to read more books and write better. They’ve been posting all kinds of interesting writerly and readerly advice. For half a year they’ve…
New Digs for the Classics
Publishers, including big guns like Penguin and HarperCollins, have begun to target teen readers by reinventing the cover design of many classic pieces of literature. Like Penguin’s new edition of…
Word Games
Two things to spice up your probably already awesome Friday morning at work/playtime/scheming your next perfect crime: 1) Shy Gypsy’s Funny Farm: This is a word association game to the max!…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Long story short, there are too many wannabe bad-ass people in the world. Yes, I will link to this story about robot soccer. For the children. Running from the Elephant,…