Letter Party Tonight
We’re stuffing envelopes with Letters to Everyone this evening. If you’re in San Francisco, and in the mood to spend some time with us, come by the Latin American Club…
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“The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict”
Iran is implementing a new strategy to teach its youth about Salman Rushdie’s fatwa-inducing sin. Iran’s National Foundation of Computer Games (Yep. Really. We have one, too.) asked students three…
“This is where we must dig”
At The Millions, Jessica Gross reviews Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s forthcoming collection of Dear Sugar columns. “Sugar forces us to swallow sometimes painful realizations about what we want, who…
Hitchcock’s “Man from the South”
There are lots of things to be happy about today. For instance, Open Culture unearthed Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s dark short story “Man from the South” starring a…
Today in the Supreme Court
Unless you’ve been away from a news source all day, you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as constitutional by a…
How To Oppress White People
Black Girl Dangerous provides a step-by-step guide on how “reverse-racist!” people of color can continue the oppression of white people, beginning with the enslavement of white bodies and ending with…
McSweeney’s Sidewalk Sale
McSweeney’s is throwing a summertime garage sale in San Francisco! Head over to 849 Valencia St. on Sunday, July 1st (between 11am and 4pm) to take advantage of steep discounts…
‘Marking Moments When the World Changes’
The 13th edition of the Documenta art exhibition, (a showcase of contemporary art that takes place in Germany every five years) a.k.a. ‘the Museum of 100 days,’ opened on June…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You guys, baby octopuses you guys. Tangent: octopi doesn’t make any sense, that’s mixing your greek and latin word origins. Let the astronauts have fresh vegetables. Let the astronauts visit…
Self-published Author Takes On Amazon
After two years of global roaming, Andrew Hyde funded his self-published travel book This Book Is About Travel through the website Kickstarter. His funders indicated their overwhelming preference that his…
Train Spottings
The strange confluence of affection for both literature and modes of public transportation is highlighted by The New Yorker today, in their post about the website Underground New York Public…
Interview (in the mail) with Jonathan Richman
SF Weekly got Jonathan Richman to agree to answer some questions—by way of snail mail. Richman, who is gearing up for a show this Sunday at The Make-Out Room, shares…