We Need To Talk About Kevin Giveaway
UPDATE: We have a winner! Ryan Van Meter of San Francisco! Congratulations! The recent film We Need To Talk About Kevin starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly is being…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee (of the future)
In the future NASA will be all up in your business. In the future parking meters will text you when they are running out. In the future you’ll be able…
Memorial Day
We’re going to take it easy today, but we’ve still got some great pieces for y’all. Don’t miss “OG Dad #6” from Jerry Stahl, or this heartbreaking illustrated story by…
Notable San Francisco 5/29-6/2
This Week in San Francisco: After the BBQ’s and the bridge fireworks… Tuesday 5/29: Tosca Cafe hosts the Litquake Epicenter series featuring Carolyn Burke discussing her biography of Edith Piaf.…
Notable New York, This Week 5/28-6/3
This week in NYC: MONDAY 5/28: The Nervous Breakdown and Emergency Press bring you TNB New York, with performances and readings by Edgar Oliver, Elna Baker, Chad Faries, and Lenore…
Angelica Garnett and the Cost of the Art
I read awhile back about Angelica Garnett’s death at MobyLives, and I haven’t been able to get her out of my mind since. She was Vanessa Bell’s daughter, Virginia Woolf’s…
Saint Joan, J.Diddy, You Know What We Call Her
I will first shamelessly self-promote and link you to a piece I did for the Awl this week on Joan Didion’s early reviews. I’m going to let that substitute for…
Are You My Mother?
NPR shares a six-page excerpt from Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel’s latest graphic memoir. Here’s a conversation between Bechdel and the Paris Review. “There’s so much she hasn’t told…
Strayed Ethics
Cheryl Strayed was this week’s guest ethicist for The New York Times Magazine. She responded to three queries–relating to sex, money, and infidelity–with that Cheryl/Sugar blend of wisdom and wit.
Rombes Rocks Berfrois
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes served as today’s guest editor for London-based online magazine Berfrois. Rombes curated an array of excellent pieces, including Rumpus editor Isaac Fitzgerald’s “In Love in San Francisco,”…
“I Am Greatly Troubled By What You Say”
In a Letter of Note from earlier this week, Mark Twain replies to a librarian’s note concerning the Brooklyn Public Library ban on Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in his…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is off today, but we’re channeling him. Smoke. Stone. Super Nintendo. Skin under a band-aid… 50 Shades of Grey. Animals with fraudulent diplomas. Yesterday, a giant solar-powered airplane…