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Notable San Francisco: 11/2–11/8
Wednesday 11/2: Kevin Opstedal, Derek Fenner, and Micah Ballard. Free, 7:30 p.m., Moe’s Books. Julia Scott interviews Peter Orner for the San Francisco launch of his new book of essays, Am I Alone Here?, which is described by the publisher…
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Happy Butch Halloween
When you are a queer kid, there are so many things people tell you are bad. In an autobiographical comic at Catapult, liz rosema tackles the topic of Halloween as it pertains to queer youth. Queer children, in particular, are often…
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Portrait of an Actress
In an article for the New Yorker, Richard Brody writes about the newly restored 1967 film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Romy: Anatomy of a Face. The film “offers an intimate view of the actress Romy Schneider, revealing crucial conflicts behind the…
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Clothes Do Not Make the Man
On our way home, Lauren told me she talked to another woman at the Halloween party who went on and on about wishing to be a man for a day. The other woman just wanted to know what it felt…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Wondering what the first female president will be like (knock on wood we find out in a week), ask an early 20th Century Futurist! How did Los Alamos become a town for millionaires? Today seems like a good day to…
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Alors, Those French Smell So Good
Osman Ahmed sat down with fragrance maker Timothy Hahn for AnOther.com to discuss his latest installment of literary-inspired luxuries: When Han created a scent inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s 1938 novel She Came to Stay (or L’Invitée, as it is known en francais) he…
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Check out Any Time You Like, but You Can Never Leave
Do you think he stood her up? At the altar I mean? Or left her afterwards? Or she found out he was having an affair? Ollie seems almost gleeful. Unhappy visitors cheer him up. I think they make him feel…
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Let’s Get Scary
Over at the Quietus, horror master Adam Nevill revealed his favorite short stories from contemporary writers working in the field of modern horror to Sean Kitching.
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A Story to Use and Reuse
At Necessary Fiction, Anna Rowser’s story “Breaking Down” effectively uses the subject of recycling as a metaphor to subtly explore what the narrator wants, needs, uses, reuses, and casts off both physically and emotionally. It’s fiction that makes you rethink…
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Weekly Geekery
Los Angeles: capital of science fiction? The latest Rx craze: novels. Richard Dawkins on Robert Frost. The scariest costume yesterday? A mite. Evolutionary biologists have a grudge against Frankenstein’s bride. The future of books: a bunch of Norwegian spruce trees.
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Never Too Early for Next Year
The power of yarn compels you! The power of yarn compels you! The power of yarn compels you! With Halloween being about the coolest holiday we see all year, you might want to check out this crochet version of The…
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This Week In Indie Bookstores
A New Paltz, New York bookstore with an anti-Trump sign is fighting a ban against it. An Egyptian bookstore has a “scream room” where customers can scream as loudly as they like. With the Gilmore Girls revival only a month a…