Notable San Francisco 9/10-9/15
This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/10: Comedy night at El Rio features Diane Amos, Malcolm Grissom, Jill Bourque, Bob McIntyre, and Lisa Geduldig. 8pm, $7. Tuesday 9/11: More funny…
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Notable New York: This Week, 9/10-9/16
This week in NYC, it’s not summer anymore: MONDAY 9/10: You already know this, but The Rumpus Loves New York. Stephen Elliott hosts, with authors Sam Lipsyte, Nick Flynn, Amber…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Asking the important questions: why do hurricanes look alike from space? Basket-making and other 19th century British terms for sex. Uh, good news? We can use goats to make breast…
Wolcott Gibbs’ Rules for Editing
Last night I was talking to a friend about how I would run a magazine, assuming I ever happened to do such a thing. I told her I’d probably run…
Saturday Miscellany
I continue to be distressed at the lack of North American access to Parade’s End. Ford Madox Ford is the kind of writer other writers of his day read and interacted…
The Week in Essays
We packed a lot of great stuff into this truncated week we just had. Here’s a recap: Lauren Fox takes on the triumvirate of love, friendship, and betrayal. Looking back…
Bookshelf Bonanza
Peter Knox discusses how bookshelves provide a glimpse into an individual’s personality for The Guardian. Knox values these book organizers for a myriad of reasons, one of which being that a person’s book display…
How to Be Friends With Another Woman
“It’s okay if most of your friends are guys but if you champion this as a commentary on the nature of female friendships, well, soul search a little.” Rumpus essays…
Abrams At The Millions
The Millions featured David Abrams in their Post-40 Bloomer column and chronicle the 49-year-olds long road to literary success. Fobbit, Abrams’s first novel, came out from Grove/Atlantic on Sept. 4 and…
Exotic Dancing Tax-Exempt Art?
Yesterday, an Albany, NY based strip club argued for exemption from certain state taxes because its dancers are performance artists. The club, Nite Moves, owes the state about $124,000 in…
New Photo of Emily Dickinson Discovered
The newly found daguerrotype, taken around 1859, is only the second known photograph of Dickinson and features the poet with her newly widowed friend. The first photo, from 1847, is…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s time to meet SETI’s first artist in residence. Holy cow, look at this sting-ray x-ray. Let’s celebrate the John Cage centennial (uh, a couple days ago) with edible drawings.…