Amazon Scrutiny
The Seattle Times takes an in-depth look at (Seattle born) Amazon’s corporate practices. The series addresses four topics: community engagement, approach to publishing, tax breaks, and a “hyper-efficient warehouse culture.”…
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Rejection Practice
“The Rejection Generator rejects writers before an editor looks at a submission. Inspired by psychological research showing that after people experience pain they are less afraid of it in the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A graphic designer looks back at his old homemade cassettes. This is very important: the dinosaur world was constantly on fire. 50 Watts is here to fill the Estonian children’s…
Family Traditions
Rumpus artist extraordinaire Jason Novak brings The Bay Citizen an illustrated story of taking his young daughter to the Hunky Jesus Contest, a San Francisco Easter tradition Novak used to…
Tumbling Tips
Galleycat consults Rachel Fershleiser of Tumblr literary outreach to bring us advice on how authors should use the blogging platform/social network. Fershleiser has the scoop on following, tagging, reblogging, and…
Emotional Lawmaking
“So when it’s time to pass pro-gun laws, emotionalism over a single incident is the order of the day. But when those laws go awry, we need to put on…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fact: Swimming pool balconies are almost certainly an awful idea. Monkeys can’t handle the social pressure! Here are some lovely insect wall charts. So, uh, we sent these mice into…
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…
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…