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Notable San Francisco: 10/1-10/7
This week in San Francisco! Monday 10/1: Banned by the Bay and Project Censored discuss the role of modern media in censorship and the most censored headlines of 2012. Free, 7:30pm. Tuesday 10/2: Booksmith and the Huffington Post Book Club…
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Notable New York: This Week 10/1-10/7
This week in NYC: TUESDAY 10/2: BookCourt celebrates the release of A.M. Homes’s May We Be Forgiven with a release party, reading, Q&A, and book signing. 7pm, free. WEDNESDAY 10/3: Tarun Tejpal reads from The Story of My Assassins and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hello chief officer dog. Plankton is neat! 60 year old (pictures of) skeletons. I am totally fascinated by this true size of Africa map. Hey look you guys, the Curiosity found a river bed.
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Links That Devolve, As Usual, Into Thoughts on Representativeness in Literature
Every week lately Saturday sneaks up on me. I’ll be sauntering along happily through the week and then suddenly I’m waking up on the weekend and I’m to post here. Some weeks I have a history lesson near-finished; other weeks,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I would highly encourage you to check out John Coulthart’s tentacle week posts. Perhaps the 7 dollar Renoir WAS too good to be true. The best part of Google Street View underwater are the tiny seahorses. Hey, so we measured…
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PANEL BUSTING: The Census
At Oxford American, Rumpus columnist Nick Rombes breaks into the official US census for 1860, chronicling his reaction to the text and the traces left behind by past readers. “Curled delicately, its oil having spread out in a bloom across…
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Cheryl Strayed in SF Today!
Cheryl Strayed will be speaking at California College of the Arts today, for their Writers Series. Thursday, September 27th at 7:00 pm. Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus (1111 Eighth Street). FREE and open to the public. (We’ll be there,…
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#NoHomophobes
“Homophobic language isn’t always meant to be hurtful, but how often do we use it without thinking? So asks NoHomophobes.com, a website “designed as a social mirror to show the prevalence of casual homophobia in our society.” The site tracks,…
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Sense of Place #1: Amy Lawless, Casa Magazines
A new series from photographer Brad DeCecco, Sense of Place captures authors in places that hold significance to their writing selves or their writing itself.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news everyone! Google sea-view is now! I’m so bored of these tectonic plates, I’m ready for some new ones. Are you very rich? Maybe you’d like to reenact Shackleton’s voyage. Castration is good for you! (in a very limited…
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Where I’m Reading – Then and Now
One of the reasons that I left my middle-management job during a recession was because I never had the energy left over to read. In fact, I never had the energy or passion left over to do much of anything.…
