Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s…
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The Underground Scene
(Thames Tunnel as it appeared on Friday, via Flickr.) Oh, how I wish I was in London this weekend…
Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #24
There’s no such thing as a bad neighborhood when you’ve got a purple belt in taekwondo, Doug. More.
Morning Coffee
Farewell ABE. (bonus sublink: the 50 best robots ever.) Fine BBC reportage: zebra stares into the mouth of death. I would like very much to live inside Ken Russell’s 1950s…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Rae Armantrout for winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection Versed. This post by Al Filreis made me send him a Facebook friend request, just…
Science Saturday
Let’s say a killer asteroid is headed toward earth and we manage to get our heads together long enough to aim a nuke at it and actually hit the thing.…
The Last Poem I Loved: “Prayer Before Birth” by Louis MacNeice
After years of people telling me that I would love Louis MacNeice, last week I stumbled on “Prayer Before Birth”. In the poem, the notion of the undead, the nosferatu…
Onward Christian History! An Update
A month ago, I blogged about an attempt by the Christian fundamentalist community in Texas to change the history and social sciences curricula for K-12 textbooks. There’s been a fair…
Saturday Morning Links
Well, it’s been a hell of a Spring Break for me, and there’s still a couple of days of it left. Let’s get to it. If you’re about to go…
Jason Epstein on Publishing’s Future
Jason Epstein started out as an editor and publisher in a now-vanished era — his first editorial job was at Random House in 1949 — and he was a co-founder…