Launch Party for Nick Flynn’s The Reenactments
Come join us tonight (Friday, January 25), at St. Cyprian’s Center to help Nick Flynn launch his new book, The Reenactments! There’ll be a reading, a conversation with Rebecca Solnit, and…
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Thou Art More Lovely and More Efficient
As the amount of digital data in the world balloons, so do the costs of storing that data. Some scientists are experimenting with ways to save data on a “device”…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
And you may ask yourself, what do birds know about fractal geometry? And you may ask yourself, what do dung beetles understand about the Milky Way? And you may say…
Seeing What Wharton Saw
Jason Diamond writes about how he came to a deeper understanding of Edith Wharton, her work, and the New York neighborhood where she grew up and which Diamond “once tried…
“The Dean of the Clerks”
If the Strand is a palace for books, then Ben McFall is king—of its fiction section, at least. A New York Times profile of McFall discusses his history with, knowledge of,…
“I Hoped My Insurance Company Wouldn’t Find Out”
The Billfold praised Seth Fischer’s essay on mental illness and “empathy and cruelty and survival.” Thanks, The Billfold! We love you back!
The Millions Is Publishing Books Now!
Our friends over at The Millions are branching out: in addition to the features on their fantastic website, they’re starting to publish ebooks. The inaugural volume is called Epic Fail: Bad…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Hoover Dam is great by the way. Potentially huge genetic news. Let’s take a moment to appreciate collective nouns. French children’s retro-futurism (huzzah). Perhaps you have wondered how people…
Tell Stories Better with Technology
Speaking of publishing innovations, SF Weekly‘s current cover story, “Storytelling 10110001101,” by Alee Karim, chronicles some recent forays into spinning narratives in the electronic age. Karim focuses on two enterprises. The…
ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue Release Party!
This Friday, January 25th at 7pm, Diesel, a Bookstore in Oakland will be celebrating the release of ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue. The night will feature readings by a variety of…
Turn Your Blog Into A Book
GIF connoisseurs and fanfic devotees, all that effort you’ve put into polishing your blog to a perfect gleam might finally pay off. Chronicle Books is looking for the next great…
A Twitter Bot That Knows Its Poetry
Located, according to its profile, in Stratford-upon-Internet, Twitter account @pentametron finds random users’ everyday tweets that happen to be in iambic pentameter and retweets them as rhyming couplets. It’s unclear whether the…