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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It begins. Scientists just made a pretty incredible anti-aging break-through. Portfolio Magazine used to be a pretty cool thing. Vesta! Your kid’s crappy haircut may be giving them lazy eyes.…
Grotto Night: Sunnyside Up
The SF Writers’ Grotto, The Booksmith and friends will present “An Evening of No-Holds-Barred Optimism” on Friday, May 18th at The Red Vic Movie House (1727 Haight Street, San Francisco).…
Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012
Carlos Fuentes has died at 83. Here’s an extensive 1981 conversation between the Paris Review and the author. “I think all writers live off of obsessions. Some of these come…
RIP Mike McGrady, Literary Hoax Mastermind
Award-winning Newsday reporter Mike McGrady passed away on Sunday at 78. He was best known as the architect of a literary hoax, the 1969 collaborative novel, Naked Came the Stranger,…
Michael Robbins Interview
Vol. 1 Brooklyn converses with Michael Robbins about his recently released poetry collection, Alien vs. Predator. Other topics of discussion include his hatred of Mississippi, Dadaism, suberversion in music, Occupy,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Who wants to get drunk at the bottom of the sea with me? Did you know the Easter Island heads have bodies too? Here’s what you need to know about…
Mike Doughty Interview
The Outlet talks with Mike Doughty about this new memoir The Book of Drugs, medication, luck, Soul Coughing, and more. “I don’t think active pain is necessarily useful. I don’t…
Notable San Francisco 5/14-5/20
This Week in San Francisco: Monday 5/14: Brick and Mortar holds a free ‘somewhat’ acoustic concert series featuring Luke Sweeny’s Wet Dreams, Dry Magic, Nick Campbell, and the Human Condition.…
Notable New York, This Week 5/14-5/20
This week in NYC: MONDAY 5/14: The Franklin Park Reading Series turns its attention to literary journals and small presses, with readings by Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls),…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope everyone had a good weekend, now let’s visualize Deep Time. Want to know about LBJ and RFK’s mutual hatred but don’t want to read an entire 700 page…
Walking While Reading (Redux)
I saw this Paris Review piece about “walking while reading” go up and got all excited. A kindred spirit, I thought. Someone else who knows that the best way to…