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…
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Valuing Education
“Over all, salaries for this academic year are 1.2 percent higher than last year, the smallest increase recorded in the survey’s 50 years — and well below the 2.7 percent…
The April Monthly Rumpus in SF
Tonight! Click here to buy tickets! April 12th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Featuring authors Mac McClelland, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Randall Mann, Susan Steinberg, and Broke-Ass Stuart!…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #28
Fuck the tour group, Doug. These guys want to take us back to their village and show us the real Amazon. Besides, remember how the guide even said there’s cannabis…
Morning Coffee
I’m sorry, but you can no longer smoke on submarines. Pictures of other people’s offices. On art and Jacque Cousteau’s dream of living under the sea. Shakespearean semantics arguments. More…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there’s still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with…
Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright
Counterpoint asked “a lot of people” (as Cory Doctorow put it) to reflect on the world of copyright on the 300th anniversary of the passage of Queen Anne’s Law, and…
Science Saturday
Late start today, so no morning links, but here’s some science for you. In the great paper book/e-book debate, some dyslexics have a firm preference for e-books. Scientists in Japan…
FUNNY WOMEN #21: Is That a Rabbit in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Trying to Date Me?
I’m sorry. It may be wrong to judge people based on their ideas and expectations, but I just wouldn’t date a magician.
Money, Schools and Sex
Thanks to Bloomberg.com, we now know how much Chad Harbach, the “Unemployed Harvard Man,” made on the sale of his novel, and how many copies of The Art of Fielding…