Hate to Be Alone
The Rumpus and Wholphin present: Hate To Be Alone With Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted, Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, Melanie Gideon, author of The…
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Morning Coffee
Still have to work out a few minor tech problems, but we’re back. On eco-peril and how the Nazca caused their own collapse. Inflatable street art. Kurt Vonnegut’s book covers…
Morning Coffee
Why do three buses come at once and what can we do to avoid it? Slate looks at tombstone portraiture. Jellyfish! Bank robbery notes. (via Gerrycanavan.) Mathlete takes on the…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #8
A HAT MY NEPHEW FOUND ON THE BUS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/2-11/8
This week in San Francisco, the annual Dia de los Muertos procession, get Mortified at The Makeout Room, the self-proclaimed “hardest working artist in San Francisco” will be showing at…
Notable New York, This Week 11/2 – 11/8
This week in New York, Performa 09 festival of performing arts inspired by Futurist film, music and literature opens, Bomb throws a Fall Issue Launch Party, Books & Quiche Reading…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #9
Scuba lessons are just swimming lessons but with a backpack, Doug. Since I already know how to swim and I definitely know how to wear a backpack, looks like I’m…
Morning Coffee
Look, I know we missed the boat by a couple days, but check out this sweet article on where ghosts come from. Spanish architecture porn of the week. On a…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
There will be a memorial gathering for Craig tomorrow, November 1, at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, New York City) from 5-8pm. A brief program of readers will begin…
The MFA Rankings Wars
Last week in my Poetic Lives Online column, I wrote a little about the immediate reaction to the Poets & Writers MFA program rankings. Well, it’s blown up a bit…
The Adderall Diaries Book Tour
Check out the video from Stephen Elliott’s stop in Fort Lauderdale on his book tour. Sorry, no video of the woman “poured into a tight black dress with lace webbing…