American Protest Music Today
Who can resist an alliterative and engaging title like “Pussy Riot, Paul Ryan, and Protest Music in 2012 America?” Corey Beasley riffs on the contradictions of protest music in the current…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to check in on developments in xtreme wheelchairs. Huntington’s Disease makes you smarter (before, you know, it takes effect)! This week the Rumpus has…
#MuslimRage
Gawker responds to Newsweek‘s new cover article with “13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage” as well as some “shocking” twitter posts that puts recent protests and sweeping generalizations in context.…
Notable San Francisco-9/17-9/23
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 9/17: Litquake and Booksmith host Irvine Welsh for the launch of Skagboys, the author’s recent release and prequel to Trainspotting. Welsh will be in…
Notable New York, This Week 9/17-9/23
This week in NYC: MONDAY 9/17: Another Monday night party at Public Assembly—The Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Opening Night—with Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s talk about the ampersand. (via Gerry Canavan.) Animated cave paintings and the very first color films (huzzah I say)! We are all deep sea explorers now. This just in:…
Lia Lee, 1982-2012
Lia Lee, the protagonist of Anne Fadiman’s excellent work of non-fiction, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, died on August 31st. If you don’t know just what that signifies,…
Stacey May Fowles on Sexual Violence
Stacey May Fowles has a great essay up at the National Post about writing and publishing — or rather, writing and not-publishing — accounts of sexual violence. It might not…
McSweeney’s Interview With David Byrne
McSweeney’s recently published How Music Works, a book by David Byrne that explains all aspects of music, from creation, to distribution, to performance. In recent years, Byrne has released chapters of the book…
The Death of Anna Kournikova Era: The State of Women’s Sport
Grantland addresses the change in media coverage and marketing of women’s sports today given the success of so many female athletes this summer at the Olympics and beyond. “Kournikova has…
Our “Literary-ish Party”
The Outlet has a nice write-up of our NYC event, complete with photographs and juicy details. “Whitehead’s reading culminated like a proper finale should, in phrases that dazzled and thundered…