Uncharted Territory
There were nationally-coordinated actions at Walmart stores across the country for Black Friday. Over the last several months, there have been walk-outs at Walmart stores in nine states. Walmart is…
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Birdlings and Other Young Poets
Via Longreads, a Michigan Quarterly Review essay by Miah Arnold about teaching creative writing to children hospitalized with (often terminal) cancer. Reading it feels like having your heart thrown off…
Notable San Francisco 11/26-12/1
This week in SF! Monday 11/26: Novelist and “media inventor” Robin Sloan discusses Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, a “tale of code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, global conspiracy, young love, and typography…
Some Queer Writers of Color
This dovetails nicely with Roxane Gay’s post about writers of color: a list of writers of color who are also queer. “I thought, I’m sure I can come up with…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Our posting schedule was a little light over the holiday weekend, but Michelle Dean’s ode to used books is well worth a read: My copy of Anne of Green Gables,…
Notable New York, This Week 11/26-12/2
This week in New York, you get Saturday off but that’s it: MONDAY 11/26: The Strand hosts a benefit reading for PEN’s Prison Writing Program, featuring readings by Lili Taylor,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is pretty cool to uncover a 1920s Berlin cabaret. Does being overweight make you (scientifically) jollier (no, well, sometimes). Here is some cross-section anatomy for you. Letters from space!…
Lit-Link Round-Up
The habits of famous (mostly dead) writers. I love Richard Cox, LitReactor, and this list of 10 Awesome Writers You’ve Never Heard of Before. Though I am happy to say…
The New Sincerity
In a New York Times op-ed that’s been making its way around the internet, Christy Wampole asserts that irony is the ethos of our age. At The Atlantic, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald…
Mary Todd Lincoln: The Controversial First Lady
Mary Todd Lincoln was no Jackie Kennedy. Although Mary Lincoln is often portrayed as being consumed by aristocratic airs, she hardly fit in with the upper-class. She spent hefty sums…
Glad We Got That One Sorted Out
Is humankind basically good or basically evil? Or does it vary too widely from person to person to generalize across the whole species? Well, some scientists took a look, and…
Happy Baby Roundup
The Happy Baby Kickstarter campaign has 21 days to reach the $85,000 funding goal. You can make a donation here. ‘Like’ Happy Baby on Facebook! Stephen Elliott talks with a Happy Baby Kickstarter backer, Stacey…