Antigonick
Anne Carson’s newest book is Antigonick, a daring, inventive translation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Like Carson’s last book, Nox (which came in the form of a poetry filled, accordian-folded scrapbook of sorts),…
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Notable San Francisco 6/11-6/17
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 6/11: Behavioral economist Dan Ariely returns to Booksmith for more fascinating revelations about counter intuitive human behavior, this time with The Honest Truth About…
Why, Zombies, Why?
After the recent resurgence in talk about zombification in the media last week, Kristin Rawls of AlterNet breaks down our country’s obsession with the undead and the possibility it’s our…
Nuns on the Run
The Catholic nuns who received a serious talking-to from the Vatican in April for being too outspoken on issues of social justice are planning a bus tour of 9-states this…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Wired looks at the science of Ray Bradbury. I, for one, am very concerned about cosmic climate change. 2012 is the year of slides. Monkey Orchids are a thing. The…
Saturday History Lesson: Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
Dorothy Parker died, rather suddenly, of a heart attack in June of 1967. She was seventy-three but had not seemed particularly sick to her friends, who still found her an…
We Love Paul Madonna
The 31st Annual Northern California Book Awards will honor our own Paul Madonna with the NCBR Recognition Award for Everything Is Its Own Reward, An All Over Coffee Collection. The…
We Love You Back, The Millions
We’ve always loved The Millions, but when they gave our redesign a shout-out, and described us as “everyone’s favorite scrappy San Francisco literary web site,” we swooned. So the secret’s…
Car Talk Retirement
Tom and Ray, NPR’s Car Talk brothers, have announced that they’re retiring come October. The good news is there will continue to be a weekly program pulled from the archives.…
Frontal Cortex
This week The New Yorker launched a new science blog called Frontal Cortex, by Jonah Lehrer. (Did you catch our interview with him?) The inaugural post touts the virtues of…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The question on everyone’s minds: can spiders kill in space? Christopher Herwig’s photos of Soviet bus stops are my favorite things today. Not to keep posting about the Diamond Jubilee,…
“I had only two career options: revolutionary or comedian”
Nato Green talks with AlterNet about offending people, labor organizing, touring with Laughter Against the Machine, and more. “I plunged into comedy because that’s the way I know how to…