Thursday, November 19, 1863
149 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered a brief but monumental speech that would come to be known as “The Gettysburg Address.”
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Notable San Francisco 11/19-11/24
This Week in San Francisco! What does the turkey have to be thankful for? http://www.friendssfpl.org/?$1_Book_Sale: Lit Slam hosts its first ever book launch for Tandem, a collection of the best…
Brothers Grimm Redux
Mother Jones interviews Phillip Pullman, author of the Dark Materials series, about his new book–a collection of stories retelling the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. “When I first started writing,…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you haven’t already, take a little gander at our posts from this weekend! “How’s your day been?” and other things women have said to Calenture in Australian brothels. Like…
Notable New York, This Week 11/19-11/25
This week in New York, everything’s closed because of Thanksgiving: MONDAY 11/19: Greenlight Bookstore hosts Jami Attenberg, who will discuss The Middlesteins with blogger Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210), introduced by…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Ain’t no rule says a donkey can’t run for public office (yes there is). This week in terrifying facts: if you are 27 you have never experienced a colder than…
Speaking of the World We Live In
People in Gaza are dying in it, and an invasion may happen by the end of the weekend. I try never to write about things I would be talking out…
Go Out And Buy Kate Boo’s Book Immediately
The other night, when Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers won the National Book Award for nonfiction, a couple of friends emailed and tweeted at me immediately, because I’d been…
Long Live The Crosshatching
The Guardian offers a podcast of Robert and Aline Crumb in conversation about their new book Drawn Together, a collection of autobiographical comic strips they’ve created together over the past…
Wayne Coyne’s Human Head-Shaped Tumor Radio Show
Next week, on November 24 and 25, at 5pm, KCRW will be broadcasting (and streaming on KCRW.com) a radio show created by our pal Rickard Parks. The show was first…
When editing gets in the way of love
Ah, editors. They sure do know what’s best. McSweeney’s features Jimmy Chen’s take on what Gordon Lish might have done to Raymond Carver’s OkCupid profile. If you want the lowdown…
This Is Why the UK Always Seems So Much Smarter Than the US
The Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is “omnishambles,” while the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is…”GIF.” We can’t even agree on how to pronounce GIF! The…