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LET’S MAKE A MOVIE! (Tonight!)

What do porn stars, punk rock self-help gurus, musical legends, comedy, literature, yo-yos, and the movie Argo have in common? The Rumpus, Wholphin, and ZYZZYVA present: LET’S MAKE A MOVIE! The crowd sourcing launch for Happy Baby,…

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“When My Husband Came Out as a Woman”

Feminist theorist Judith Butler criticizes gender as something culturally constructed while “sex is just as culturally constructed as gender.” According to Butler, the distinction between sex and gender turns out…

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“Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt”

Three years ago yesterday, in honor of Kurt Vonnegut’s birthday, we reprinted Steve Almond’s homage to the late author, “Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt.” “The main thing was that Vonnegut made…

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Put Some Flash Fiction in Your Headphones

Story Tapes is a new podcast created by Bay Area writers Eliza Smith and Faith Gardner to showcase flash fiction. In the past few months, they’ve featured writers reading their…

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Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco

This week in San Francisco Monday 11/12: The SHOUT is a live storytelling event featuring people from all walks of life telling amazing but true 10-minute stories from their lives.…

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Notable New York

Notable New York, This Week 11/12-11/18

This week in New York, events are coming back online post-Sandy (but please consider helping Powerhouse Arena, or lending a hand at evacuation centers that still need volunteers if you’re…

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Eve Ensler wants you to rise

The Nation features a very knowledgeable and loving essay by Laura Flanders about the inimitable Eve Ensler (author of The Vagina Monologues), her work, and her movement One Billion Rising.…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

The answer to all our problems is urine ! (PS. this is actually totally inspiring.) It turns out the suitcases left behind by people in insane asylums in the early…

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Today I have a cold, so I am eating comfort foods and reading Nora Ephron’s early collections, which Vintage has just reissued and I now command you to buy. When she…

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“But it’s John Updike in particular that a lot of them seem to hate.”

Upon Philip Roth’s sorta-kinda retirement announcement (my sense is that nothing’s final until everyone is dead) we have been treated to encomia online, and renewed calls that he be given…

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The Loft Kid strikes the soul

The New Yorker features an excerpt from Jonathan Lethem’s gorgeous, poetic ode (at times loving, at times sharp, at times you’re not sure) to Andy Warhol and the scene, sense…

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Have you heard of The Rolling Jubilee?

Occupy, once again, has devised a clever way of thwarting Wall Street. The Rolling Jubilee is an organization created to “free debtors from their debt” and claims: “We buy debt for pennies…

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