The San Francisco Chronicle lists “titles of interest” coming out in the next couple of months.
Among them, Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark (I’ll be interviewing Auster in September for City Arts and Lectures), Jack Pendarvis’s Awesome (read it! Jack’s an old friend of mine from Alabama, we met in a place called The Haunted [...]
My nice, Camille, who is a freshman at School of the Arts in San Francisco, made this for KQED’s digital storytelling contest. Go, Camille! See other Bay Area high school students’ digital film takes on the state of the state here. While you’re there, take a couple of minutes to watch Pacifica student Jovel Queirolo’s [...]
Monday, June 2, is the postmark deadline for the Mid-American Review’s annual contest for prose poem and short shorts, or any prose work 500 words or less.
First prize is $1000 + publication. Ten additional finalists will also be named, with a chance for publication in the fall issue. This year’s judge is Aimee Nezhukumatathil, [...]
I haven’t read litblogs for a while, but taking a spin past The Millions this morning, I remembered why I used to. See Garth’s expert advice on “How to Title Your Novel: The Abstraction of Abstraction.”
Would you do this with your car? No? Maybe you just haven’t found the right, um, vehicle.
Don’t eat the toad resin, no matter how much you want to impress a lady.
The wife of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran in March 2007 is offering a reward for information about his whereabouts. “I [...]
Here’s a funky, interesting website out of LA that seems to promise good things to come. A bit hard to navigate at the moment, but definitely worth poking around. Featuring mixed media “movellas,” writing about art, and humorous send-ups of politicos. Nice tunes, too. Now, how this website came to my attention is a funny [...]
Update: Saraj Unir Davenport has been found safe and in good condition with family members. Police say the missing child report was fraudulent. Read the story here.
Police in North Carolina have issued an Amber Alert for Saraj Unir Davenport, who disappeared yesterday from a flea market parking lot in Smithfield, NC, while his mother was [...]
Chellis Yang alerted me to this blog out of China. Shanghaiist, which is normally dedicated to music and nightlife, is now running up-to-date information on the rescue effort following last week’s terrible earthquake.
Also, more on Burma from the BBC. And an interesting article on the very different responses from the Burmese and Chinese governments to [...]
It’s a scorcher today. Really. Best place to beat the heat is out in the avenues, where there’s a nice breeze to take the edge off. And if you’re one of those San Francisco people who tends to forget that our city has a coastline that stretches for miles along the Pacific, it might be [...]
It feels somehow profane to write about books at this moment in history, in the aftermath of the terrible cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China, when tens of thousands of people are missing, and hundreds of thousands more are homeless. But I felt compelled, nonetheless, to link to this beautiful essay in the [...]
