Go Domingo Martinez!
Last week was the National Book Foundation Awards Ceremony. At The Millions, Bill Morris narrates the event and cheers on underdog Domingo Martinez, author of the memoir The Boy Kings…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes you need to take a step back, breathe, and appreciate how awesome the Kepler Telescope has been. Other times you just want to look at Mexican b-movie posters. We…
Chased By Bees – m4w – 45
Every Sunday, James the Stanton of Gnartoons posts an episode of Missed Connection Comix at San Francisco blog Uptown Almanac. The strip takes missed connection posts from Craigslist—the guy who…
Last Night On Earth
A San Diego-based arts collective, So Say We All, called for submissions based on the prompt: “Tonight, the world will end. Everything you love will cease to exist. How do…
Andrew Solomon: not afraid to go there
Andrew Solomon’s “Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity” seems like a book we might like. Solomon cuts to the heart of the many possible events…
Storm-Torn Relics
“That red convertible we were so proud of looks as though it is about to be struck by a meteor. And every moment — the prom, the dance recital, the…
The Freestyle Cortex
A sudden burst of improvisational creativity may feel almost supernatural in origin, but there’s a biological basis for it, say researchers. How did they study it? By scanning the brains…
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.”
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…