Bites: Fancy Cocktails, Dick is Good for Divorce, German Publishers, Cheshire Cat as Math, Stephen Elliott at WORD, The Replacements, and More

Our favorite Bay Area bookstore takes a look at old cocktail books. Lit. Want a smooth divorce?  Read Moby-Dick. At The Millions, Emily St. John Mandel talks about writing on trains. Designworklife takes a look at German book publisher, Zeixs. If Sarah Palin is coming to your local supermarket to sign books, please get rid of the tomatoes. N+1 discussion between conservative writers Ross Douthat and Reihan Salaam. Shakespeare characters write letters to Santa. Q: Why did Lewis Carroll add […]

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Random Obsessions: Finding Food on the Interweb

It’s sort of hard not to like bloggers that just go around eating pizza and report on it, and it’s even harder not to like them when they have one of my favorite zine writers, Aaron Lake Smith, tag along.  So Slice Harvester has won my heart.  I’m especially fond of the caption involving Aaron’s hand, and the latest slice for review, that reads, “Notice Aaron’s hand poised to accost this slice, symbolizing the ever-present threat of the Capitalist Death […]

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