Misadventure
“Millard Kaufman’s posthumously published novel is a comic-noir page-turner that is equal parts Elmore Leonard and Dashiell Hammett, with bits of Glengarry Glen Ross and Lolita thrown in for good…
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Writing & Publishing the Novel
Do you live in the Bay Area? Do you like helping children? Do you need a lil’ help with that novel you’ve been working on (ok, thinking about)? Then you…
Morning Coffee
I’m going to be out of the country for a few weeks, I promise you you’ll be in good hands. This is what quantum physicists do for fun: negative twenty…
Morning Coffee
Bettie Page: FBI Consultant. Not feeling so hot these days? Google is watching out for you. A psychedelic (and awesome) look at the Glass House. Design as performance art. Objectively…
“More Than Poetry”
“Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power…
April’s Monthly Rumpus
Did you miss the last Monthly Rumpus at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco? Or, where you in attendance but you just need, need, to relive the laughter, the tears,…
Morning Coffee
The Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements. Jason Laferrera’s map birds are pretty cool. Behold the world’s oldest solar panel. An entirely new form of life has been discovered, which doesn’t…
“It’s amazing how much human nature hasn’t really changed all that much.”
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at “Twitter Updates, the 18th Century Edition.” Apparently, before the late 1800s, “diaries weren’t considered private or introspective. Instead, people wrote semi-public diaries…
The Money in Fonts
Bummed about shelling out for printer cartridge after printer cartridge? Tired of submitting essays and papers, only to find that the breaking of your bank outweighs the heartbreak of oh…
Personal Tales in Publishing
“I was being paid minimum wage by an important publisher to sit very still and, occasionally, walk across the floor.” Writing on the subject of the publishing industry, especially if…
Morning Coffee
Department of look at this dang thing: really old xylophone. Unintentional thematic link: New Scientist on the world’s aging program. I am a sucker for this sort of thing: Comic…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/12-4/18
This week: The Monthly Rumpus rocks the Makeout Room yet again, The Believer presents You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You, San Francisco’s Cinematheque society has a neat film…