More on Franzen and the Web
At Salon, David Daley argues that “Jonathan Franzen and the Web will never get along.” Daly points us to an anecdote in Franzen’s “On Autobiographical Fiction” in contending that both the…
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FUNNY WOMEN #76: A Person with Severe Social Anxiety Imagines What Will Happen If Seen Tripping on a Sidewalk
You! Rebecca Victoria O’Neal! I’ve just seen you trip on the sidewalk, confirming a long-held suspicion that you are a Bad Person with Whom I’d Never Hang Out.
Segura Returns to PW!
Former Publishers Weekly deputy reviews editor Jonny Segura will return to the magazine in the new position of senior editor, digital media. On April 16th, Segura will take over responsibility…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in um…: you see homeless people I see 4g wireless opportunity. Zhang Kechun’s pictures of the Yellow River are pretty dang incredible. Within five years there will be…
Notable San Francisco: 3/12-3/18
This week in San Francisco…. Monday 3/12: Tonight! The last (for now) monthly Rumpus at the Make Out Room. You can’t afford not to go.
Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac
The author would have turned 90 today. In celebration of his birthday, Open Culture shares the the 1985 documentary Kerouac, the Movie. Slate remembers with a slide show of “Kerouac…
“The Final Make-Out” (Tonight!)
The March Monthly Rumpus will be our last event at The Make-Out Room. Come out and help us give them a rocking farewell on March 12th, 7pm, at 3225 22nd…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Cavemen may have been way more literate than previously thought. SPACE TRAIN YOU GUYS. Also here are some ghost cars. Sometimes you just want to make music with fruits. Floods…
Lit-Link Round-up
One week ago this morning, I’d been awake for just over thirty hours, and was seeing stars while getting ready for Cheryl Strayed’s release party for Wild, thrown at the…
You Can’t Take Me Anywhere
The first day of the AWP conference, I ran into my good friend Tod Goldberg. Since Tod is now, also, my boss and since I’d be doing some time unofficially…
Among the Moleskine People
I’ve long been of the opinion that there are exactly two places where it’s acceptable to wear a bow tie: when wearing a tuxedo at a designated black tie event…
Confidence Women
Because I read the internet and because I have a stake in the question, I suppose, like everyone else I’ve been thinking about women and writing. There are new byline…