On the 14 Mission bus, two young dudes sitting in the back seat discuss a certain popular Madison Avenue-based cable television program.
MIRRORED SUNGLASSES DUDE: Dude, did you see Draper last night? When that old British dude just wailed on that other British dude with his cane? That was his son, yo. Like it was an ordinary thing to do...
Read MoreWhat was it like breaking into the "boy's club" of cartoonists at Rhode Island School of Design and the New Yorker?
Read MoreWell, actually, I had more of a struggle at RISD then I did in New York. In many ways — I've had this conversation with my daughter who goes to school for liberal arts — there are really great things you learn at art school and one of them is that you're not the only talented person.
[In honor of the publication of Louise Glück’s Poems 1962–2012]
Fifty years of poems from a poet not yet turned seventy, brimming with carefully articulated emotion beginning in taut observations —
Fish bones walked the waves off Hatteras.
And there were other signs ....
A man and a woman sit on one side of a table, the man helping his daughter slice through a pancake. Three of their friends sit on the other side. After an unheard remark from a female friend, the man speaks up.
Man: "There are some women who find me attractive."
Woman: "Well, I don't."
Read MoreIt's been over a decade since the last Baby-sitters Club installment came out, but the fandom lives on. "Snark" communities analyze the books into harsh oblivion, Ann M. Martin has over 12k likes on Facebook, and people are still speculating where the sitters are today.
But the BSC's biggest impact can be seen, surprisingly, in fashion blogs. We've matched the club's members with their blogger progeny, and it's hard to deny: Stoneybrook style is still alive and well.
Read MoreHave you heard? End times are near and our old pal Nostradamus wants to tell you all about it.
But don't worry too much. Heaven apparently exists, and you better write a book about it while you can.
Read MoreUnlike the last collection of materials gleaned from Roberto Bolaño’s unpublished writings, Woes of the True Policeman does not come with an introduction by the late writer's literary executor (and Savage Detectives character) Ignacio Echevarría. Why?
Read MoreWelcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. Spoilers ahead.
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