Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in ruin porn, the world of abandoned borscht belt resorts. Banner ads are basically the least effective thing ever. Here is everything you need to know about the coming…
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Claire Messud on making friends with Characters
Annasue McCleave from Publishers Weekly suggested during an interview with Claire Messud, “I wouldn’t want to be friends” with Nora, the fiery protagonist in Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs. “[Nora’s] outlook is almost unbearably grim,”…
The Biological Challenges of E-Readers
Traditionalists agree: There’s just something about good old-fashioned paper-and-glue books that e-readers can’t recreate. According to this Scientific American article, that “something” may be the way our brain processes written words…
FUNNY WOMEN #100: Writing the Next Great American Woman’s Novel
A lot of women people (as opposed to men people, or just “people”) are upset that Wikipedia editors have created a subcategory for "American Women Novelists.” But I’m not.
Boyz II Mentos and Other Illustrated Puns
PBR Kelly. Weekend at Bert & Ernie’s. They may not be as literary, but San Francisco artist Justin Hager’s illustrated puns remind us of Timothy Leo Taranto’s. Check out more…
Michelle Tea’s Book Party Looks Awesome
Food, drink, fortune-telling, live music…is there anything about the release party for Michelle Tea’s new novel that doesn’t sound amazing? The book is Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, new from McSweeney’s McMullens; the refreshments…
Notable San Francisco 5/6-5/11
Don’t forget your mamas this Sunday, friends. Monday 5/6: ODC teams with visual artists, musicians, choreographers, scientists, and interdisciplinary thinkers for The Deep End, a performance examining “psychiatric and/or neurological disorders…
Nick Cave Monday #34: “The Ship Song”
“The Ship Song” can induce emotions of love, lust and affection. It’s a sexy and soft ballad. If you listen to the song and no one is around to kiss…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If your Cinco de Mayo was too excelente for you to spend much time online, here’s a recap of what happened on the Rumpus this weekend. An aquatic wonderland of…
Notable New York: 5/6-5/12
Monday 05/06: Ben Greenman heads to the Franklin Park Reading Series to celebrate the release of his new novel The Slippage along with Sam Lipsyte, Toure, Claire Vaye Watkins, and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are in to being bummed out, you should probably read about what’s been happening to Harper Lee. I am sort of in love with this portable solar power…
The Wind-Up [Marathon] Chronicle
Only once you’ve climbed the steep slope and emerged onto level ground do you begin to feel how much you’ve been hurting up till then. Haruki Murakami, author of What…