Notable San Francisco 7/1-7/6
Monday 7/1: Negative Press Project, the Glasses, and Music for Hard Times play free for the Make Out Room’s First Mondays. 8pm. Tuesday 7/2: Free first Tuesdays at museums around…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
When Good Grammar Is Actually Bad
Adverbs acting as manner adjuncts “do not occur between whether and infinitival to,” you guys. Duh. Or, in other words, you can’t say, “…decide whether unconditionally to attend the Geneva…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Hope your Pride Weekend was pretty, witty, and gay. On that topic, we interviewed Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her book The End of San Francisco, which asks the question: If San Francisco…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome back from the weekend, here is a story about some twin baby otters. Hey, what’s Olafur Eliasson up to these days? Czech poster design is also great Do chimps…
Vintage Photos of First Pride Parades
Maria Popova showcases some classic photos of the first Pride parades around the world. Head over to Brain Pickings and give them a gander!
Tomorrow in SF: Digital Literary Conference digi.lit
Bay Area literary nonprofit Litquake is holding its first-ever digital literary conference in San Francisco on June 29. It’s called digi.lit, and it aims to “demystify the new digital publishing…
A Sci-Fi Anthology with a Mission
Racialicious links to a supercool Kickstarter for a project called Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. They describe it as “an anthology of radical science and speculative…
Rock Out to These Books About Music
Book Riot has a kickass playlist of books in which music is central. From the Scott Pilgrim series to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize–winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, they’re all books…
“Oprah Only Deals With Real Black Writers”
Hey Brandon, this is my fourteenth thorough revision for you in four years. I know I’m not changing your mind and that’s fine…My book is unapologetically an American race novel,…
The Greater Meaning of Goats and Gossip
If there’s anything worse than accidentally CCing someone on an unflattering email about them, it’s receiving an unflattering email you weren’t supposed to see. When Tim Kreider discovered such an…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
No, Voyager hasn’t left the Solar System yet, but it will soon (probably)! We are not above linking to insane dog grooming competition photographs. Let us now discuss the sleepy…
Here’s to dreaming, kid
Congratulations, Steve Almond! And welcome, Rosalie. It’s a strange world you’ve entered but, trust us, it has its moments. Read the hope-filled letter Steve wrote his newborn here.