Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s the thing you guys, talking robot baby. The history of maps is one of my favorite things. A man-made object is about to leave the solar system for the…
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Ben Lerner in The New Yorker
“In the name of clarity, a lot of authors offer what strike me as basically pre-fabricated structures of feeling, leaving no room for the reader to participate in the construction…
The Utopian Project
“In relation to the future, a poem is like a note sealed in a bottle and thrown into the sea.” Charles Simic writes on Poetry and Utopia for the New…
Cattle Haul
The latest story featured by Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading comes from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage The Bones. The story, originally published in A Public Space,…
Writing for the Ear
“Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important…
Existential Ménage-à-Trois
Andy Martin, author of The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, writes about the woman called Wanda who ended the “bromance” between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. “Camus was the new kid on the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Thinking about what existed before the big bang hurts my brain. How to kiss. Should the tides rise, San Francisco will look a lot more like I imagined it from…
Women Better at Sex Writing?
Martin Amis, whose new novel made it onto the PW Best Summer Books list, explained to his audience at the Hay Festival that “women write better about sex.” “As a…
Brian Spears in Cobalt
Cobalt Issue #4: Summer 2012 features an interview with our own Brian Spears. Topics of conversation include his debut collection, A Witness in Exile, shifting roles in the writing world,…
Murakami Bingo
“Mysterious Woman. Ear Fetish. Dried Up Well. Speaking To Cats. Weird Sex…” Grant Snider brings an illustrated “Haruki Murakami Bingo” board to The New York Times‘ Sunday Book Review.
FUNNY WOMEN #80: My Future Author Bios, from Least to Most Likely
This is Rupinder Gill’s 85th self-published book. She recently moved back in with her parents.
Tumbeliever Party
The Believer and Tumblr are teaming up to present A Reading, Party, & Official Meetup in San Francisco. The event will star Mills Baker, our own Isaac Fitzgerald, Melissa Graeber,…