Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to talk about bee brains. All you Occupiers out there, try and be as classy as The Pyramid of Capitalism. Over yonder, Keith Haring’s…
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Charged Sentences
“It is by fussing with sentences that a character becomes clear to me, that a plot unfolds. To work on them so compulsively, perhaps prematurely, is to see the trees…
A Place for Literary Videos
In response to YouTube’s lack of a literature category, Reddit has created its own “underground” site for literary videos. “Poetry videos, short story videos, live readings, spoken work performance, audiobook…
Notable San Francisco: 3/19-3/25
This week in San Francisco Monday 3/19: Booksmith launches an original release, San Francisco and the Bay Area: the Haight Ashbury Edition. Snacks, readings, and history. 7:30 pm.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Soon air war will be as simple as a thumbs up, yay. . . Let’s all take a look inside Hitler’s LA bunker. This is sort of fascinating, iPads (and…
Lit-Link Round-up
This Sunday, Josip Novakovich gives us an essay on friendship addiction and male friendships. One fun and thought-provoking aspect of this piece is its radical difference in tone from the…
You Can’t Handle the Truth, in More Ways Than One
Perhaps you listened to the recent “This American Life” episode about conditions in the Apple-contractor Foxconn’s factories in Shenzhen. It was voiced by a man named Mike Daisey, who had…
Elizabeth Taylor Nerd Patrol
I am a book nerd but I tend to read old books more often than new ones. Sometimes that means I miss out on the new hot thing but more…
“The Literary Establishment”
The post I’d planned first for you this Rumpus Saturday keeps growing and growing and growing, like Violet Beauregarde in the Wonka factory. I need to hack at it a…
Beat Generation Brought to the Stage
Beat Generation, Kerouac’s only known full-length play, will premiere this year in eight performances as part of October’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. The play was written in…
This American Life Retraction
This American Life has retracted its story “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” Ira Glass says that airing the episode was a mistake, asserting that Mike Daisey–whose one-act play was…
Reading with Urgency
Books and depression fill Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s essay “Blue Like You” over at This Recording. “The treatment was very gentle and it was very nice and it helped me go…