Notable San Francisco 3/11-1/16
Monday 3/11: Cafe Royale’s free stand-up night, featuring Kelly Anneken, Josef Antolin, Ryan Cronin, Anita Driesberg, and Brendan Lynch, joined by fellow local funny people. Free, 7pm. Tuesday 3/12: Do…
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Nick Cave Monday #26: “Brother, My Cup is Empty”
When the the relationship is over, when your heart is cracked open and leaking blood on your pinstripe suit, when you’re out of cash and you need something to numb…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Here’s hoping you were too busy attending panels and buying Write Like A Motherfucker mugs at this year’s AWP to read The Rumpus this weekend. And here’s hoping you’ll read…
Notable New York: 03/11-03/17
MONDAY 03/11: Electric Literature and Lazy Fascist Press celebrate the release of Sam Pink’s new novel Rontel, the first book release from Electric Literature. The night will include readings from…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In case you want to start your week reading fascinating and upsetting historical documents, over 10,000 Haitian runaway slave notices have digitized. There is something mysterious living in Antarctica’s Lake…
Archer and a History of Underground Comix
In his “On Archer’s Underground Comix Roots,” Charles Bock discusses the history of adult Comix and how they laid the foundation for cartoons like The Simpsons and Archer. Bock claims: Comix. That…
We Still Have A Long Way to Go
A grim reminder of one of the reasons we still need things like International Women’s Day: the suggestion that men should take responsibility for not raping women is apparently outrageous.…
Let’s Get Real
Philosophers have been debating the merits of authenticity since Plato. Steve Poole’s essay “Why are we so obsessed with the pursuit of authenticity?” explores the obsession with authenticity in contemporary…
The Health-Care Article That Might Give You A Heart Attack
If you haven’t yet read the Time exposé of the American health-care industry, you’re missing out. It’s easy to see that something’s wrong with the way we do health care in…
Happy International Women’s Day!
In 1909, the Socialist Party of America marked the anniversary of a garment workers’ strike by declaring February 28 National Women’s Day. A few years later, on the other side…
The Next Letter in the Mail: Alix Ohlin
Woohoo! The next Letter in the Mail, going out next Friday, is from Alix Ohlin! Alix Ohlin is the author of two short-story collections (Babylon and Other Stories and Signs and…