Notable San Francisco: 4/9-4/15
This Week in San Francisco. Monday 4/9: Rachel Kramer Bussel and Susie Wright present co-edited The Best Sex Writing of 2012, a volume of essays on pretty much everything, including…
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Notable New York: 4/9-4/15
This week in New York, Laurel Nakadate discusses The Wolf Knife at the IFC Center; book people report on books at Le Poisson Rouge; David Rees talks pencils at B&N…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: dinosaur Easter eggs (for reals!) The street-legal flying car is here! Here are your bad-ass gifs for the week. The department of forgotten mascots.…
Overlooked Movies For Saturday Introverts: Higher Ground
The actress Vera Farmiga, whom you may know from Up in the Air or, possibly, the great guilty-pleasure of 2009, The Orphan, directed a movie called Higher Ground, which came…
Saturday History Lessons: On Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot
One February night in T.S. Eliot’s mid-twenties, he went his aunt’s house in Boston. It was 1913, and the occasion was one of those delightful-sounding “evenings of amateur theatricals” that…
Relational Reading
Author Sheila Heti, a long-time astrology naysayer, came across popular U.K. astrologer Jonathan Cainer last year and has been following his daily writings ever since. In conversation at The Believer,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in lets-watch-this-be-constucted: the Rio Jesus! Sexual kidney is the expression I’ll be thinking of this weekend. Let’s look inside famous author’s bedrooms. Did people evolve from dolphins? No, not…
On Not Playing It Safe
“P.S. Reading is a commitment. You’ve got to disengage and pay attention. But when done right, you enter a whole ’nother world. Kind of like a great record, at least…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Thank you so much Atlas Obscura, for pointing us to the sex worker habits of penguins. Let’s look at some ugly, ugly buildings. Wired on feathered tyrannosaurs and the possibilities…
Word Choices
At The New York Times, Constance Hale contributes a series of writing lessons. Her latest entry, “Desperately Seeking Synonyms,” zeroes in on the complexities of nouns. “The best writers combine…
Celebrate Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Month, Knopf and Tumblr are teaming up for a poem-a-day celebration. You can follow and submit your own poetry here. The Knopf/Tumblr duo will host…
“Worn Stories”
“It takes me a while to recognize beauty; that’s why, as a writer, I edit so compulsively.” Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about his backpack (you’ll see).