McSweeney’s Holiday Party!
Come out this Thursday night to The Makeout Room from 7-10 for McSweeney’s annual Holiday Party! Tickets can be purchased here and guests receive a free copy of the Believer or Lucky…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Tiny Beautiful Things Makes Every List
Brain Pickings has come up with a list of The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012, and #2 is our own Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things. Don’t forget you…
The Essay That Should End the Irony Wars
Irony can acknowledge our natural, justifiable feelings of insignificance, or show that we understand our subjectivity. With some humor, if we can manage it! Irony demonstrates that we know we…
Sleep Song, The Poetic Epilogue to War, Cancelled
Sleep Song, the third installment of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s poetic performances that showcase stories about soldiers of color in wars, had its Harlem Stage show cancelled because its…
FUNNY WOMEN #92: How to Almost Probably Not Die of Rabies
Probably you will not get rabies if your dog licks your face, and you remember afterwards that the previous morning he may or may not have bitten a shrew.
A Year in Reading
Instead of trying to wrestle a year’s worth of literature into one tidy little list, The Millions has asked various writers to simply discuss anything good they read this year,…
Reminder of the Importance of NASA
Glasses, extra light wheelchairs, satellite technology, and even moon boot technology in KangaROOs. But even more impressive is NASA’s ability to get Gloria Steinem and Charlton Heston in the same…
“community can bind tighter than blood”
The A.V. Club reviews recent Rumpus Book Club pick Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins. Reviewer Ellen Wernecke says: “The Middlesteins calls back to Richard Ford’s untidy domestic dramas, which spill out into the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
People sure are talking a lot about maybe going back to the moon. Dante’s monsters and mythical beasts. On genetic accidents and the origin of intelligence. Superfecundation is pretty nuts.…
Cheryl Strayed in the NY Times “Dream Dozen”
In their article “Twelve for ’12,” The New York Times gives love to Wild and Dear Sugar. Ala the twelve days of Christmas, Cheryl is number five and wearing five golden rings.…
The Publishing Industry Takes A Blow?
Authors such as Stephen King and Judy Blume will soon be able to reclaim works they published 35 years ago. An article on paidcontent.org investigates a relatively unknown law that will…