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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 conversation with Alan Black, followed by a multimedia presentation, no-host…
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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 of Books. 8pm, free. BookCourt asks Who Gives a Sh*t…
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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: the New York Public Library stacks have always been great.
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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, the Times has a long article about Lia, and the book,…
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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 be possible for an American to know the shadow the…
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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 as individual works: this TED talk about architecture’s effect on…
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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 long since exited the public eye, but those years during…
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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 out the truths of our shared New York lives. After,…
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BOMB’s Poetry Smackdown
As part of Lit Crawl NYC, BOMB Magazine presents: Poetry Smackdown this Saturday at 7pm at Dempsey’s Pub (61 2nd Avenue). Twelve poets will compete in a read-off to win the love of the audience and eternal glory. The first…
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How Books Clubs Went Indie
“Forty-something Betsy Birdsall jokes that she likes the Rumpus group because it enables her to hang out in her bathrobe and slippers while pretending she has friends. She says Elliot encouraged her to get active with the club’s discussion group.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Technology can be rad: 3-D printed bald eagle beak! Maybe levitating drugs in zero-g will make them more effective (tell me something I don’t know, scientists). The best way to deal with noisy movie theater patrons is to attack them…