This might be a good time to talk about snake legs. Spinach will save us all. Oh, that’s what I was looking for, meat-eating furniture. Cuba has some neat building…
On Thursday, February 17, 826 Valencia is presenting its first-ever Spelling Bee for Cheaters at the Herbst Theatre. As its name implies, this will not be your average bee. No,…
We need language to understand numbers (I still do not understand numbers). What does history look like? Long story short: people love toys and have for sort of a while.…
This week in San Francisco, get in bed with Quiet Lightning, Microscopic Giant at Space Gallery, Laughter Against The Machine, Andrew Foster Altschul’s book launch, Literary Death Match, Stephen Elliott…
Adorable news to start your Monday: Dog Show pig! Hurray! Rejection the Gertrude Stein way. Soviet space secrets are the best kind of secrets. National Geographic looks at the Paris…
“I first envisioned it as a foundation for education, but I realized that the people who were affected the most were her kids, and they needed some medical care and…
I’ll admit that I’ve used cover art as a deciding factor in purchasing or not purchasing a book. For instance, I do not buy books that have had their covers…
Due to AWP-fueled exhaustion, I will be leaving you in the hands of LaToya Jordan today. Until next week, here is a video of Douglas Kearney giving an incredible reading.…
Remainder by Tom McCarthy can only lazily be compared to Kafka or Murakami, Ionesco or Calvino. Really, there is an English dryness about it that is more like Graham Greene…
As a writer trying to write about “America,” my biggest struggle has been fully grasping the variety of spaces that is contained within America. Which is why I’ve been an…
In school I took a class on female poets and was instantly taken with the poetry of H.D., especially her later work Trilogy, a savage and mythic poem about rediscovering…
Feeling kind of arty today. Pollution as installation art. Sam Shaw’s Intimate Icons. San Rocco is a magazine about architecture. This week in botanical sculptures. These pictures of subway cars…