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Notable Chicago: 1/13–1/19
Saturday 1/14: David Mitchell discusses his debut novel We Hold These Truths with Dave Baron, author of Pembroke: A Rural, Black Community in the Indiana Dunes. The authors will address the intertwining issues explored by their books. 57th Street Books, free.…
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Notable Portland: 1/12–1/18
Friday 1/13: Franz Nicolay reads from his anarcho-leftist memoir debut, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control and is joined afterwards in conversation by Cari Luna, author of The Revolution of Every Day. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free. Sunday…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
will return bright and early tomorrow morning. Stay warm and dry out there. Take care of each other.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why do killer whales (or, like, anyone) go through menopause? Ancient shark was doomed because it loved to eat tiny whales. Same dude. In non-whale news: Maybe Mexico should just buy Twitter. BACK TO THE SEA: hey look at this…
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Notable San Francisco: 1/11–1/17
Wednesday 1/11: Passages on the Lake (hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts) presents Daphne Gottlieb, Sonya Renee Taylor, Tracey Knapp, Derrick Carr, and Haldane King. Free, 7 p.m., The Terrace Room. Shanthi Sekaran (The Prayer Room) reads from her new novel, Lucky…
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This Week in Essays
At Catapult, Toni Jensen writes a mesmerizing narrative of documenting assault and human trafficking intermixed with her experiences at Standing Rock and facing threats of violence. At Hazlitt, Aparita Bhandari examines goddess figures and the ways that within current belief systems…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe there were, like, tons of moons. Lebanon’s racist, gendered architecture. Isn’t it time the dolphins started to protect themselves (or their smaller relatives). Let’s hear it for overpasses and flyovers. Gather round and listen to the story of Gay…
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Weekly Geekery
Lizard brain, meet the one-sentence novel. Sea slugs: the key to why you’ll remember this article. Are millenials “empty inside”? New books reveal the truth!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Instead of yelling at a cloud, one curmudgeonly old man runs a bookstore. Another curmudgeonly bookseller has taken to charging browsers a fifty-pence fee for looking at merchandise in his used store. Amazon plans to open a New York City…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A look inside LAX’s new anti-terrorism facilities. (2017 everybody!) How about a look inside a very old pencil factory instead (I’m sorry this text is in German). Pickles: what’s up with them? Here are your Soviet snowmobiles for the day.…
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/9–1/15
We’re back! It’s 2017! We’re living in the future, which is cool and all, but books are still awesome. Let’s go get some new ones this week. Monday 1/9: Cynthia Garrett discusses and signs Prodigal Daughter: A Journey Home to Identity.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Leila Aboulela examines time and its tricks in “Pinpricks” for the Saturday Rumpus Essay. And this weekend, we kicked off our Rumpus Inaugural Poems project with Leila Chatti’s eulogy for every mother’s lost country in “Motherland,” and Kaveh Akbar’s surreal images…