Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hurray for spillways! If I’m reading this correctly, the point is that whale’s ears are gross. 1980’s disco-blasting robot waiters (heart). Here’s some mid-century astronaut photography porn for you. Fitzgerald’s…
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“The Lost Interview”
Here’s the first full English translation of the only known interview with César Vallejo. The conversation was conducted in a Madrid café, published by the Heraldo de Madrid newspaper in…
Post-Quake San Francisco
Here’s a famous photo of San Francisco taken after the 1906 earthquake. You can zoom in and explore the city. The picture was captured from a kite flying 2,000 feet…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s Tuesday, here are some harvest mice. Monitoring crazy urban sprawl from space! The new hip thing is asteroid mining. Vintage headphone ads (I think we could all use a…
Trayvon Martin Roundup
The Sanford City commission has rejected police chief Bill Lee’s resignation. George Zimmerman was released on $150,000 bail as he awaits trial for second-degree murder. Jelani Cobb on what it…
Celebrate Poetry (Tonight!)
Knopf and Tumblr are presenting a celebration of poetry tonight at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC. The event will feature Poet Laureate Philip Levine and 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy…
Notable San Francisco: 4/23-4/28
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 4/23: Poet and activist Alice Rogof reads at Dog Eared Books. Free, 7pm. Tuesday 4/24: Comedian Eric Barry is at LOL for LLS, a…
Notable New York, This Week, 4/23-4/29
This week in New York, Grantland launches at Bookcourt, Philip Levine and Tracy K. Smith read at Housing Works, everyone (not kidding) pays tribute to Philip Larkin at Cooper Union,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s talk about drilling lasers in outer space. Today in almost timely political street art: Pinocchio Sarkozy. These 17th century fish sketches are my favorite thing today. Viewing the world…
Saturday Old Reads: Lady Journalists Edition
I thought I’d write an essay for you today but naturally it’s not done because my allergies are clogging the old brain-machine. Besides you all probably want to read subjects…
Zen and the Art of Pencil-Sharpening
I saw David Rees read once. The event was about politics; it was to introduce a political book whose title I have regrettably forgotten. (I went to support another friend.)…
Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso: In Which Heckling Is An Integral Part of Poetry Reading
The 92nd St Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, an institution of which I have never taken nearly enough advantage, occasionally posts recordings of its old readings. A couple of days ago,…