There has been no shortage of criticism in response to Hamilton Nolan’s Gawker post “Journalism Is Not Narcissism.” Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott wrote a recent critique of Nolan’s essay, as did…
The San Francisco Bay Guardian‘s current cover story is about the culture surrounding Twitter bots that artificially inflate your follower count: who buys them, why, and where you can buy them…
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Kill your bed bugs by taking this pill. The Museum of Math just opened its doors. It’s home to the world’s…
“Drugs won’t do the writing for you, but steroids can take a monologue that would have gone to the warning track and knock it out of the park.” Apparently steroids…
SF Weekly sits down with Malcolm J. Brenner, author of Wet Goddess and ex-lover of a dolphin. It might be one of the most fascinating interviews you’ve ever read. She…
The Night Writer Society, a new and mysterious group of writers based out of 826 Valencia is hosting its first event on February 5th featuring Larry Smith, creator of SMITH…
“Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap,” Ken Layne writes in a post for the Awl titled…
Big news from Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and artist Wendy MacNaughton: Pen & Ink, the duo’s Tumblr devoted to tattoos and the stories behind them, will be made into a…
Despite the surge of e-literature and the fact that since 2008, the city has cut back library funds by $68 million, NYC public libraries have become exceedingly more popular in…
The Economist has a comprehensive article up about how the Internet has revolutionized the stagnant comics industry by demolishing barriers to publication and enabling artists to make a profit in new…