On the selection of a major, and a career
Many people these days are asking whether a college education is "worth it." Tuition is sky high, loans lead to substantial debt burdens, and state universities are no longer nearly so cheap as...
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A very literary weekend
Well, had a reading at LitQuake this weekend. Or rather, I introduced la_nausicaa, who did the reading from Sensation for me. It was packed, which was good. Two of the three other readers had a)...
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...the workshop provided an environment where "every word and every attitude is subject to constant scrutiny" under the communal gaze, forcing the student, if necessary by "terrifying" him, to assert...
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The Biggest Book News of the Season!
What are readers waiting for?!Is it...the comic stylings of Greek American author Jeffrey Eugenides, and his new novel The Marriage Plot?NO!The nerdy cultural criticism of Margret Atwood's In Other...
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Foreclose on Wells Fargo
Occupy SF has been distorted, in my view, by geography. Camping out at 101 Market, the site of the SF Federal Reserve, was a good idea on paper, but doesn't really work practically. There's no real...
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SENSATION reading
Here's la_nausicaa, tearing it up Nursery School teacher style:PS: buy SENSATION.
View ArticleFlirt fail, and stuff
I was actually chatted up by an attractive woman on the BART today. She was probably mid-20s, liked that I was reading a hardcover book about "an intellectual subject" (her phrase). She was reading...
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Work of Art, Ep. 1: ADVANTAGE SUCKLORD
Work of Art is back, and it's great! I thought the first challenge—taking a piece of kitsch and attempting to transform it—was an excellent one. Of course, it goes without saying that such a thing is...
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DC superhero comics
Which monthly DC superhero comic do smart people consider to be the best one? Thanks.
View ArticleFigure Four CAPSLOCK
This LitQuake event, which featured local literary figures and pro wrestlers reading from pro wrestling memoirs, was better than it had any right to be. It was utterly hilarious.The highlight was...
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Personality Test
Check out this bit from the so-called 53percent tumblrIn addition to the elementary math error the 53percent tumblr is based on (53% is not part of 99%??) this image is especially annoying, as it is...
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Occupy Berkeley, plus...
A number of the usual suspects—the People's Park crowd, and Gray Panther types with steel wire hair. Note two girls with covered heads, and the traditional-seeming white couple next to them. No...
View ArticleThe question as yet unasked
It's widely understood that Tea Party politics infected many things, including American Idol, which lead to the victory of this cockpunch to the whole world:But now with the Occupy Wall Street movement...
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Sunday Book Notes Or, I Am a Supple Young Boy
Last night I prowled the Mission with many others as part of the Litcrawl. It was good, but the best part was literary yet not part of the event. I passed a laundromat when going from one venue to...
View ArticleOccupy SF at Justin Herman Plaza getting busted at midnight
occupyfdsf on livestream.com. Broadcast Live FreeLive stream—not likely to be available in the AM.
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West Coast Crime Wave
The electronic anthology of crime stories, West Coast Crime Wave is out, or appears to be anyhow, on the Kindle. Other formats are to follow, and it should be available in all of them by this time...
View ArticleOCCUPY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
From the Los Angeles Times:Author Lauren Myracle was asked to withdraw her book "Shine" from the National Book Award finalist list for young people's literature. In a statement issued by her publisher,...
View ArticleCopy and Paste Criticism
D. G. Myers, literary critic for the neoconservative magazine Commentary, has taken a swipe at the "useful idiots" of Occupy Writers. It's the usual sort of criticism by copy-and-paste, without a trace...
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