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…
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“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…
Six Books and Cheetos
There were, apparently, only six books in Jeanette Winterson’s house, growing up. And she managed to become one of the world’s greatest writers, anyway. (So says I.) I can’t decide…
Frankenstein in the Delivery Room
Ruth Franklin, who is the best reason to read The New Republic, ran an interesting piece this week about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s mother was the proto-feminist (or…
A Round Up of Kony 2012 Links
Yesterday I clicked on a link from my Twitter feed that took me to a YouTube video about a man named Jason Russell and his son and then I realized…
I Was a Teenage Krishna
It all happened quickly. I began praying to Krishna: a blue boy playing a flute to a herd of sheep on a green hill, a small boy with a peacock…
Comedy SuperPAC
Two of our favorite comedians, W. Kamau Bell and Nato Green are teaming up to present Comedy SuperPAC: Promoting Good Comedy & Great Causes Since 2012! The weekly stand-up comedy…