Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Great moments in horrifying ignorance: gay marriage will lead to sentient duck overlords. Of course you would like to know more about Predator X. Baby scorpions are also great. Medieval…
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A Sports Novel from Across the Pond
The Millions explores a different series of sports writing in this in-depth essay on “Cricket’s Rich Literary Vein.” Elizabeth Minkel looks specifically at just a couple books but broadly explains…
“necktie popcorn”
Housten Donham, at HTMLGiant, reviews Andrew Choate’s new book Stingray Clapping. While musing on the minimalist and “oddly pleasurable” pieces, Donham also comments on the current poetry scene. As a…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellowship
The University of San Francisco has established a fellowship in honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti “who published and supported the work of writers who were outsiders―outside traditional academia or traditional social…
Fundraising Campaign Internship
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is raising funds for his next feature film, based on his acclaimed novel Happy Baby, and he needs your help! The Rumpus is seeking applications for a…
Notable San Francisco: 10/15-10/21
This week in SF! Monday 10/15: Lit Slam, a “a live audience-curated poetry phenomenon” taking place regularly throughout the Bay Area, presents Chicago-based Jamila Woods for its final show of…
Notable New York, This Week 10/15-10/21
This week in NYC, everything happens on Monday (and Friday’s pretty good, too): MONDAY 10/15: Words Without Borders, Bellevue Literary Press, and Bookcourt host Eduardo Halfon, as he reads from…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Back in the saddle! Did you know that the FBI totally tried to blackmale MLK into killing himself? Yep… This just in: turtles are gross! On the exclamation comma and…
On the Comfort of Bad Books
At last weekend’s New Yorker festival, Salman Rushdie ventured the opinion that the inexplicably popular 50 Shades of Grey “made Twilight look like War and Peace.” I don’t like Twilight, I’ve never read 50 Shades of Grey, and still some defensive…
Nadya Labi’s New Yorker Feature
You will thank me for telling you to run to your nearest newsstand to purchase last week’s New Yorker before it disappears. It contains a remarkable reported story by Nadya Labi…