Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s talk about the moon. 1970s middle schoolers imagine the year 2000. Hey dudes, check out this oarfish! Paris makes plans to become tomorrow’s most whimsical city. Of course you…
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Tell the Difference
How can you tell when someone you know has been affected by an experience in their life? Is it a deeper crease in the forehead, or a slight, pensive frown…
Cataloging Gets Personal
If you’ve ever been curious about what it’s like to be a cataloger of an author’s work, much less David Foster Wallace’s final book, you may want to give Jenn…
Have you seen the Everywhere Man?
Invisible City Audio Tours presents Jim Nelson’s new FREE audio tour: Everywhere Man. Everywhere Man invites Invisible City Tourists to solve a modern mystery while riding San Francisco’s historic cable cars.…
Matthew Dickman’s Plea
Poet (and recent Litquake participant) Matthew Dickman is asking for your help. Inspired by the people, the movement, and the poetry of the Mission (and San Francisco) he saw in action…
“the literary apologia”
Novelist John Reed, who wrote an excellent piece for us last year on the politics of narrative, talks with Slant about repentant book critics. The conversation includes some kind word…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Accidental themes… Here are those North American auroras from outer space you asked about. The Space Coast is my favorite photo-essay of the whatever. Another day another new Earth-like planet.…
FUNNY WOMEN #88: Retrospective Open Letters to the Ones Who Got Away
To the men who got away: Hey, let's talk about it now that I have a fresh perspective.
Morning Moments
NPR’s Weekend Edition interviews Mary Oliver, Pulitzer-prize winning poet and author of the recently released collection, A Thousand Mornings. “One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must…
Alcott Rumpus Reading
Kathleen Alcott will be at San Francisco’s Alley Cat Books tonight, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection). The event will…
Retelling of Captain Ahab’s Manic Quest
Did Herman Melville hook you? As part of an effort to reintroduce the world, as well as introduce new generations, to Moby Dick, artist Angela Cockayne and writer Philip Hoare have organized…
“The FBI’s antics were a sideshow. The main drama was elsewhere.”
The FBI’s quest to undermine that which it does not understand is nothing new. While Steve Wasserman’s review of Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to…