Watermelon Story by Sam Biddle
Watermelon season has arrived, the sweetest time of year.
A politics expert explains that because three Secret Service agents got drunk in Amsterdam, President Obama now faces "the worst thing that can happen to a president": a negative narrative about his perceived competence. This may harm his ability to "improve his overall job approval numbers."
Future of Fancy Reading and Writing: Online
Writerly power-couple Tom Jenks (former fiction editor at Esquire, GQ and Scribner's), and novelist Carol Edgarian (Rise of the Euphrates), are profiled by the SF Chronicle about their literary-online magazine, Narrative. It has "selections from writer friends such as Jane Smiley, Tobias Wolff and Joyce Carol Oates;"…
