The cult of Marissa Mayer

Looks like the media just can’t get enough of Google executive Marissa Mayer, and wouldn’t you know it: I can’t either. This woman is ridiculously fascinating to read about. The latest profile from San Francisco magazine is clearly a puff piece – you can almost hear how breathless the writer is – but I [...]

New Yorker Stories: “Free Radicals” by Alice Munro

All I can say is WOW – leave it to a frakkin’ legend like Alice Munro to screw my head back on about New Yorker fiction. If reading the weekly New Yorker story is like a dubious session of panning for gold, reading Free Radicals by Alice Munro is like finding a big fat [...]

Today on the Muni Metro (2/7)

This is actually an amalgam of the past several days but shhhhh it’ll be our little secret. Recently observed:

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Angels by Marian Keyes
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
Choke by Chuck Pahlaniuk