FUNNY WOMEN #72: People We Want to Be and the People We Are
When I tend to think about myself, I tend to think that I am okay. My hair is fairly soft, and I have very tiny hands. I don’t necessarily imagine…
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The Lives They Loved
Last month, The New York Times Magazine asked readers to share photographs of loved ones who passed away in 2011. The result is “The Lives They Loved,” an interactive feature…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The year in animals killing each other. I promise this is (possibly) the last year-in-review link. Let’s take a moment to discuss the most kissed face in the world. The…
Winter Grotto Classes
If you’re in the Bay Area, you should check out this list of upcoming writing classes and workshops at The Grotto. Winter classes begin January 17, and all students enrolled…
No Comment
At the Believer, Meghan Daum dissects the “commenting culture” of the Internet and the rampant “haterade” in our public discourse. “A young person (any person) who published a piece as…
Rumpus Bukowski
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott reading Charles Bukowski for the City Lights Podcast.
Notable San Francisco 1/9/-1/15
This week in San Francisco – Monday 1/9: Monthly Rumpus! Readings by Tupelo Hassman, Julie Greicius, Andrew Foster Altschul, and Adam Johnson, music by Shovelman, and Luke W Gilbert, comedy…
January’s Monthly Rumpus (Tonight!)
The First Rumpus of 2012, co-hosted by ZYZZYVA, is tonight! We’ll see you January 9th, 7pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring authors Tupelo Hassman, Julie Greicius,…
Notable New York, This Week 1/09-1/15
This week in New York, The Franklin Park Reading Series with Sam Lipsyte and Gary Lutz; Emily Books hosts author Emily Carter at WORD; Speed Shrinking for the New Year…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
These were the weirdest new animals of 2011. 2012, on the other hand, will be the year of single person helicopters. Fake holidays are pretty wonderful. Let’s take a moment…
The Sunday Lit-Link Round-up
Some of the interesting lit-related things I saw this week, which may or may not have appeared this week: A very good interview with Dennis Cooper at HTMLGIANT. Best European…
Science Saturday
Independent journalists are taking to the skies, attempting to use drones to capture footage and livestream it. Even though I’m a huge fan of tech, I’m not sure I feel…