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Notable San Francisco, This Week 5/30-6/05
This week in San Francisco, plants kill people (Wicked Plants – the author speaks), people kill people (Assassins, a musical!) but music…oh, music will help us all to live again (Dead Westerns play the Hemlock).
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Notable New York, This Week 5/30-6/05
This week in New York writer Edna O’Brien and actor Gabriel Byrne at McNally Jackson Books, book party for Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars, Swoosie Kurtz reads Edith Wharton, George Clinton and PFunk, stargazing at the World Science Festival,…
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Memorial Day Morning Coffee
Happy Memorial Day! We won’t be updating the site as often as usual today, as it is a holiday, but make sure not to miss Steve Almond’s “Musical Lamentation Offered on the Passing of Gil Scott-Heron.” Hope you have a…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
You’ve probably heard about PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, which will give 24 young people the opportunity to delay college (although some of the fellows have already graduated from college; they’re that smart) and instead take…
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What Disasters Uncover
“After all, apocalypses like the Haitian earthquake are not only catastrophes; they are also opportunities: chances for us to see ourselves, to take responsibility for what we see, to change. One day somewhere in the world something terrible will happen,…
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Adam Mansbach on Gil Scott-Heron
I’ve been seeing tributes to GSH since the news broke last night, but this one stood out to me for some reason. Here’s a taste. “The fact that drugs took him under – and I don’t mean today, I mean…
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Science Saturday
This has always seemed like “no crap” idea to me, but still…if you’re writing about heath studies, you should probably find out who’s funding those studies in the process. An interview with Hans Fricke, the man who’s spent more time…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’m taking next weekend off to get married. Seth Fischer, who rides herd on this joint some Sundays, is going to fill in for me, for which I am eternally thankful. I’ll try to avoid the temptation to check and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are your illusions for the year. Hey dudes, there is hella water on the moon yo. Good uses of tubes. Avant-garde books are pretty neat! This makes a lot of sense: Apple products inspire religious feelings, like, scientifically.
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Rejected
Artist Hally McGehean has been selected for Time Out New York’s list of hot “spring singles.” Now usually we’d never link to a piece like that, but we like this one… mainly because Hally has been rejecting our managing editor…
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How to Promote Your Book
Alina Simone, Eugene Mirman, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott have perfected the art of marketing.