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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in nature being gross: the picture-winged fly drinks sperm to quench thirst. More Soviet ads please, thanks. Perhaps you would like to see the view from One World Trade Center. Perhaps you would like to buy a fragment of…
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Fresh Air Fail: What Happens When Personal Writing Draws a Spotlight
Martha Bayne wrote a piece for The Rumpus about her unplanned pregnancy. Next thing she knew, she was being invited onto Fresh Air. That’s when things got sticky…
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/20-4/26
Saturday 4/20: The L.A. Times Festival of Books is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Rumpus will be there, sharing a booth with Tin House. Come say hi and show us some love! The Young Literati are throwing The…
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Links I Like
Does Twitter count as links? I’ve decided yes, it does. This week I felt grateful that I follow Saeed Jones and Thomas Page McBee. In “Into the Fold,” Thomas Page McBee writes, “I understand that in the aftermath of tragedy,…
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Spring Fever! Tonight!
We’re teaming up with KQED Pop and Do415 to present Spring Fever: A Night of Literature, Live Radio, Comedy and Music! Join us at for a feverous night at San Francisco’s Verdi Club on Friday, April 19th, 7pm. Free with RSVP! Featuring comedian Sean Keane, literary super-team Wendy…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s been a very good week for possibly livable planets. Relatedly, maybe life didn’t even start on Earth at all. Maybe a lot of things. The future (of snowmobile rescuing) is now! Let’s talk about baby consciousness. Tylenol is (possibly)…
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In the Books
Social workers in South Korea frequently refer to North Korean defectors as da-moonhwa, a broad label that means “many cultures.”
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Author Appearance: Anne Lammott and Son Have “Some Assembly Required”
San Francisco-based author Anne Lammott is the prolific novelist and non-fiction writer behind works such as Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year and the indispensable writer’s guide Bird by Bird. Her latest collection of autobiographical essays, Some Assembly…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There is a good chance that you would like to know more about ricin today. The Offshore Freeway and other visions of the Los Angeles that could have been. It’s pretty great seeing scientists bicker about where we should look…
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The Last City I Loved: San Francisco
One part of me will always be on my roof in the Sunset District, smoking with my human butt on a damp spot, my cigarette butt about to rest on a similarly moist shingle.
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Record-a-Poem!
Let’s help the Poetry Foundation celebrate National Poetry Month by recording our favorite poems! Check out their SoundCloud page where, in just a few clicks, you can record yourself reading any poem of your choosing. It’s free, easy, and bound to…
