A special issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, “An Era in Ideas,” goes under the surface of words like “death” and “terrorism” that have entered the public imagination since…
Summer is the most appropriate time to reminisce about those “character-building” odd-jobs of yesteryear. Sometimes perusing a book’s dust-jacket, you learn that your literary idol endured some menial labor or…
Groupon can be tracked throughout history—way back to the ancient Greeks. Also, they apply to all forms of graphs. Real vampires with heat sensors! This is like minute math for…
This week in San Francisco… Monday, August 8: Wake up! Resist the urge to go home and sleep off the day by starting the week off strong, preferably by cracking…
After four years in England, I know that summer is not the season of budding trees, shy morning sunlight, blue skies, and merry picnics on the grass that my Midwestern…
The Rumpus and the Bay Citizen are excited to announce our next monthly event, “We Love You From the Start.” August’s event features a slew of brilliant writers: Melissa Febos,…
This week in New York Airplane! at Bryant Park, Lev Grossman reads from The Magician King, Moth StorySLAM on business, The Center for Book Arts annual summer reading, authors Emma…
Take THAT, mind bending microcosmos. Finally, our very own mini-me’s. Does this mean we all have to reassess the importance our moon signs? Alien hunt on earth? Psshh I’ve been…
Have you checked out Sunday Magazine? It’s writer David Friedman’s site with articles from The New York Times Sunday Magazine exactly 100 years ago from the date he posts. One…
“So…I haven’t read…in 5 and a half years.” David Berman’s baritone voice drizzled out to the 8th floor auditorium at Columbia College in Chicago, sliding shyly over the beige carpet…
One might call Brewster Kahle a master archivist. He’s the man behind the Internet Archive, a digital library that stores a copy of every web page posted since 1996. And…