The Next Letter for Kids: Nolan O’Brien
The next Letter for Kids, going out Friday, June 28, is from Nolan O’Brien! Nolan is an Internet and technology guy turned cattle rancher, permaculture gardener, and holistic-management practitioner. He lives…
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After 65 Years, “The Lottery” Endures
Since its publication in 1948, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson has become an American classic, appearing in high school classrooms, as well as in the hands and on the computers…
A Brief Look at Other Victories and Defeats
From SB5 in Texas to the Voting Rights Act to the defeat of DOMA, this has been a bittersweet week. But among all of the apprehension and excitement, a few…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, PayPal is following you into space. Here are all the rivers of America. Here is a compendium of lost words. Metafilter is there for you when you need…
An Oral History of Unsung Queer Latino Immigrants
The new issue of SF Weekly features the life stories, translated from their own words, of four gay and transgender Latin American immigrants who came to San Francisco in the…
“As Long As I’ve Been Alive I Have Known That I Am Going to Die”
At five, at six, I knew that the cemetery was full of dead bodies rotting away in boxes under the ground, and I knew that I would be one of…
Shakespeare’s Plays: Fact or Fiction?
Has Shakespeare become so intertwined with our culture that we find it hard to separate myth from reality? Dan Jones at the Telegraph writes about how many of Shakespeare’s historical…
Victories for Pro-Choicers, Gay Marriage; Defeat for Voting Rights
As you’re probably aware, we’ve been covering Texas’s grotesque anti-abortion bill SB5, and we’re overjoyed to report it did not pass. Texas State Senator (and now folk hero) Wendy Davis filibustered…
SF: Phone Booth Sessions
Part four of San Francisco’s Phone Booth Sessions will be taking place tomorrow! Readings, performances, & screenings by Jarett Kobek, Janey Smith, Dean Smith, Davenzane Hayes, Dorothy Tunnell, M Kitchell,…
Lunch with Orson
“They’re so busy, this would be a great day to send a dish back to the chef.” Vulture.com shares transcripts of director Henry Jaglom’s taped conversations with Orson Welles at Los Angeles’s Ma…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists want to help you pee (this is really important, I’m sorry for being juvenile). Yes, abandoned theme parks are still my favorite. Polish film posters are pretty great though…
Mapping our stories
The new app Placing Literature helps you explore our world through the eyes of the literary. Reintegrate, an initiative of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, is funding the…