Notable San Francisco 11/5-11-10
This week in San Francisco! Monday 11/5: Quiet Lightning is a monthly curated magazine featuring blind submissions by writers throughout the Bay Area. Tonight’s readings come from the November issue,…
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Improve your prose with Math
Alright fiction writers, put down your pens for a moment and let’s talk math. If you recoil when hearing the “M-word” or brace your index fingers into a cross at…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure we’re all going to be preoccupied for the next two days, so let’s take a moment to talk about shark sex. The golden age of space (can be…
Joke or Treat
Artist Jon Cotner celebrated Halloween by collecting jokes from his neighbors in Brooklyn. Check out his slideshow at The Hairpin.
Juicy Poetry and Film Theory for Your Friday
HTMLGIANT features Carrie Lorig’s breathtaking review of Raul Zurita’s Dreams for Kurosawa, a book of poems provoked jointly by the film Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (take that literally; Kurosawa directed a haunting film…
Amazon bans Authors from posting book Reviews
If you’re an author on Amazon, your days of posting book reviews may have come to an end. Amazon’s new book review policy classifies Amazon authors as competitors, and competitors…
The Good Old Days
Before social media, people spread ideas with postcards. Collectors Weekly features an article of the double-edged sword variety. Lisa Hicks provides a selection of Suffrage-era postcards (both pro and against),…
Prop 34: The fate of the Death Penalty
The United States is one of only four industrialized democracies that still practice capital punishment. This upcoming election, Prop 34 will determine the fate of the death penalty in California. Alexandra…
A Sound Bite to Savor
Who doesn’t love awesomely funny and quirky writers who slyly and inevitably ravage us with their insights into the sometimes devastating complexities of life and interaction with our fellow human…
Fallen Trees, Broken Windows and Beer Bottles
We’ve got a treat for those of you who followed Sandy’s destructive path and what has been left in her wake. How about a nice essay about how New Yorkers…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Evolution watch 2012: this elephant appears to be speaking Korean. Who doesn’t love old skeletal drawings? Behold the earliest known super nova! Behold the painfree bandaid! Now let’s take a…