Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey, so, uh, Science is totally reading your dreams and ready to feed old people your blood now. Get ready for a new tallest building, west coast. I can’t believe…
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A Close Look at Solitary Confinement
Mother Jones features a gripping story by Shane Bauer, who in 2009 was apprehended on the Iraqi border and imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison in Iran for 26 months, 4 of…
A Responsibility to the Classics
We’ve all got those books we’ve been meaning to read. Whether we heard about them yesterday, or saw them in a bookstore window a couple of months ago, or we…
Amanda Davis Award
McSweeney’s is accepting submissions for their Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. “This memorial award is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is always a good day to discuss spontaneous combustion. Now let’s talk about the weather on Uranus (there are no need for sophomoric jokes, also what’s up with all…
Amanda Todd and Myths of the Internet Age
At the New Yorker, Rumpus Saturday editor Michelle Dean writes about Amanda Todd, cyber-harassment, outed Reddit moderator Michael Brutsch, free speech, and the idea that cyberspace would offer a “bodiless”…
“not asking for permission to be human”
The Millions interviews Cheryl Strayed about grief, Sugar, rejection, setting boundaries, and much more. “That’s what authority is. When you’re actually writing from that deepest place within you, if you…
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…
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…