McSweeney’s McMullens, Lost Sloth, and J. Otto Seibold
McSweeney’s McMullens has published a new picture book for kids—Lost Sloth by J. Otto Seibold—and they want to celebrate! Join them on Sunday, July 14th, at the Lost Sloth Pop-Up…
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Raise Your Glass to The Toast
Here’s a new website you’ll definitely want to add to your favorite Google Reader substitute. The Toast, started by Hairpin alums Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg, is “a daily blog…
Making Gertrude Stein and Opera Cool Again
“It would be my dream if people were just, like, rapping Gertrude Stein in New York,” says director Michelle Sutherland in the Kickstarter video for her genre-busting show Gertrude Stein SAINTS!…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you have wondered, how could the remnants of the cold war help us stop the illegal ivory trade? We’ve been bringing flowers to funerals for at least 13,000 years.…
Everything Is Terrible
…so here’s a video of a duck who has just received a new prosthetic foot. The duck, named Buttercup, was born with a backward-facing left foot, which was amputated and…
Tiny Screams and Other Deviations from Girl Power
The riot grrrl movement—and other “angry young women” making music around the same time—validated and celebrated female rage. But what if you feel less rage and more “negative but ultimately…
The Missouri Review Showing us Love!
The Missouri Review recently posted a quote on their Tumblr from our essay, “David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism Of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead:” I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Those orca aren’t weird looking, they’re just a different species yo. Perhaps you’d like to see some 1905 panoramic photos of San Francisco, Brooklyn, Atlantic City, and more. Lonesome George…
Next Time You Need to Illustrate a Blog Post…
Stock images are a strange form of art: we see them constantly, but we’re only rarely aware of them and almost never think critically about them. Subversive online lifestyle(ish) magazine…
Quiet Lightning + The Rumpus
We’re teaming up with Quiet Lightning, San Francisco’s favorite monthly submission-based reading series, to host a night of deep thinking and good drinking. Featured guests include Alice LaPlante, Brandon Brown, Janine…
Sofia Coppola Makes Shallowness Deep
Can a character be well rendered not in spite of her vapidity but because of it? And if so, what does that say about how the culture in which people…
Beast Crawl This Way Comes
If you live in the Bay Area, it can often seem like San Francisco hogs all the cool literary events. But East Bay denizens, take heart: Beast Crawl slowly approaches.…