National Book Award Finalist or Nickname for the Author’s Junk? (Both.)
List of National Book Award Finalist titles that, when put under a phallocentric microscope, could be read as possible references to the author’s own genitalia:
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This Weekend in San Francisco
If you live in the Bay Area don’t miss The Believer‘s All-Acoustic Summer Festival of Language and Thinking. Click the link for details (or just take our word for it…
Morning Coffee
What a tiny cabin. A very important discussion on birds and their terrorizing habits. Massimo Vitali takes epic beach photographs. I have been wondering for a while where my fins…
Books For The Summer Travel Itch
Now that it’s summertime, one in three people who shop at my bookstore are looking for travel guides, phrase books, travelogues or history books about some enticing destination. Yesterday a…
The Rumpus Gets More Love
“The impressive writing makes The Rumpus stand out. Rick Moody’s Swinging Modern Sounds column matches up against any music blog, and its staff and roster of contributing authors always come…
Summer Rereading
“I think about forgotten gestures, the multiple signals and words of grandparents, lost little by little, not inherited, fallen one after the other from the tree of time. “Tonight I…
No Sugar Today
Dearest sweet peas, There’s been a tiny bit of trouble in Sugarland—nothing disastrous or tragic, just enough of something that I wasn’t able to write a column this week. I’ll…
Morning Coffee
Artist Bruce Munro puts old cds to good use. Of note: if you are looking for a present to give me, these vases are super rad. Police sketches of your…
Dear New York and San Francisco Readers
Looking for something to do this week? Don’t forget to check out our event listings, Notable New York and Notable San Francisco.
Morning Coffee
A little deep sea photography porn to start your midweek right. Nice try, newspaper. Superblimp! Sometimes we are not above just linking to a list of weird cults.
FUNNY WOMEN #27: An Author Answers Her Fan Mail
That’s what we authors are always working for, that personal connection with the reader. It’s what makes all the unpaid hours, mostly spent blogging for a book deal, worthwhile.