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,…
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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…
Keeping Abreast of the Issues of the Day
This essaylet by Jill Lepore at The New Yorker about this week’s “scandalous” TIME cover gives the history of people losing their minds over the depiction of breasts and breastfeeding and…
Mother’s Day
“Back when my son was three I took him to Downtown Brooklyn. He pointed to a sign, and said ‘The – King’s – Store.’ I had no idea he could…
Thanks, Boing Boing!
Boing Boing linked to Steve Almond’s must-read piece, “THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like the Fallen World.” We love you back!
Memory Excavation
Guernica examines the intersections of science, emotion, and memory by way of an exchange between novelist Rivka Galchen and neuroscience professor David Linden, featured in the Rubin Museum’s Brainwave series. “As…
First Agent
At The Quivering Pen, Emily St. John Mandel remembers her first agent who, even in death, remains part of Mandel’s audience. “She comes back to me at odd moments. When…