Notable San Francisco: 4/16-4/21
This Week in San Francisco.. Monday 4/16: San Francisco writers Jeanne Powell & Nancy Keane join Bird and Beckett’s Poets! series. Free, 7pm.The Lit Slam, “a live performance-curated poetry publication…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/16-4/22
This week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series tackles betrayal; Archipelago Books hosts a launch party; Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Tom Bissell read at KGB Bar; John Reed, Rebecca…
The Sedaris Reading Diet
I’m pretty sure my favourite part about this interview with David Sedaris is the writer he’d most like to meet: “[I]f I could go back in time, I’d love to…
A Note About a Mundane Note from George Eliot
This week the Persephone Post has been putting up little scraps of signatures and letters from one of its staff member’s grandmothers-in-law. One of those scraps is a letter from…
A Celebration Of Written Correspondence
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Letters In The Mail: A Celebration of Written Correspondence” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! Monday, June 4th at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 6:30pm. With…
John Ashbery: Greatest Poet Alive?
Poet and Rumpus contributor Matthew Zapruder contends that John Ashbery is “our greatest living poet.” In order to make his point—and spare us the work of tracking down all the…
“No, I’m the Narrator”
At The New York Times, author and Rumpus contributor Jami Attenberg writes about the the disorientation and fear that came when, after a break-up, her ex-boyfriend started a site about…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Cats are bigger than Jesus. But don’t forget dogs: “The Canine Casualties of the Titanic Disaster” is super sad! So, when exactly did we stop sleeping in trees? Ferocious superwind…
Booze and the Brain
According to a new study, “beer makes men smarter,” or more scientifically stated, drinking alcohol “may enhance creativity problem solving by reducing the mind’s working memory capacity, which is the…
On The ASME Imbalance
At The Awl, Lucy Madison breaks down the many numbers, ratios, and biases behind the absence of women nominees in the National Magazine Awards’ major “brass-ring” categories. “As far as…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ll be out of town for a couple days, I will however return to you with open arms. Sometimes you have to give the people what they want: 1870s proto-lol…
Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman Roundup
The news broke earlier today that George Zimmerman will be charged for the killing of Trayvon Martin. The charge is second-degree murder. Something important to remember about this case: Trayvon…