I Check After…
A new Twitter project called I CHECK AFTER calls on us to list one thing we do before checking our phones and computers in the morning. If we can’t think…
Other
16043 posts
Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Weekend Features
Several not-to-be-missed essays appeared over the long weekend: Julia Goldberg’s “Wrinkles and Time,” Lauren Cerand’s “On Elegance,” and Ted Wilson’s review of circles.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What was until recently one of the world’s oldest things, is no more. NY phone booths as tiny libraries. How do snakes drink (this is something I wonder every day).…
Notable San Francisco 2/20-/26
This week in San Francisco – pepper the week with shows by indie artists for Noise Pop’s 20th birthday. AAAnndd….: Monday 2/20: Bender‘s kicks off a week of happy hour…
Notable New York, This Week 2/20-2/26
This week in New York, Beatrice.com hosts Blogger/Author; Critics Circle on the Oscars; The Rumpus: Letters in the Mail at Housing Works; How I Learned to Chill the F@#k Out…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy President’s Day you guys. We’re going to keep things low key and see y’all tomorrow.
Science Saturday
The Crab Nebula may be acting as a fast particle accelerator. If you’re going to take a picture of a black hole, you apparently need a telescope the size of…
Yeah, that’s pretty bad
It might not be the worst poem in the universe, as was recently claimed on Wikipedia, but Gina Rinehart’s paean to mining is pretty bad. I’ll copy a couple of…
Saturday Morning Links
Hard to believe, but in a week and a half, The Rumpus will be in Chicago for the AWP convention, and we’ll reading to raise money for 826 Chicago on…
Porchlight: Young Love, Monday!
Porchlight is hosting an event at the Verdi Club on Monday, February 20th at 8p.m. The storytelling theme of the evening is “Young Love,” and our own managing editor Isaac…
R.I.P. Anthony Shadid
Yesterday, Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent, died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. His memoir, House of Stone, is to be released in…
The Untidy World
“In truth, memory’s great betrayal, that it will not lie intact in wait for us, is lament enough to revisit in every generation. This is what I go to nonfiction…