February 2010
104 posts
Amazon eBook Pricing Battle Gets Ugly →
Feb 1st
January 2010
49 posts
Greed is Good Again →
Jan 29th
I felt the risk of being overwhelmed by Giger →
Considering the hugely positive reaction to his incredible, Oscar-winning work on the film’s predecessor, it’s little wonder that H. R. Giger was ‘disappointed’ not to be contacted when…
Jan 29th
Bayside High as Playboy Mansion →
Jan 29th
The Onion Remembers Salinger →
Jan 29th
Brodsky’s Cat: Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s A Room and a... →
Jan 29th
Proust’s Arabesk: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan... →
Jan 29th
J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010 →
Jan 29th
Life on the battlefield is different from the... →
Writing letters of admiration to Hollywood pin-ups was a regular pastime for many soldiers during World War II, and the gracious responses and photos they received went some way to boosting troops’…
Jan 29th
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J.D. Salinger Dies at 91
What a sad loss… http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html
Jan 28th
iStephen Fry →
Jan 28th
R.I.P J.D. Salinger →
Jan 28th
Jan 28th
Circular Dread: The Narrative Pleasures of Damages →
Jan 28th
Difficult Books: Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov →
Jan 28th
Mythbusting: An Inside Look at the Last Days of... →
Jan 27th
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Roll Up: The Beatles Meet the Wu-Tang Clan in... →
Can’t stop listening….check out immediately if you haven’t already.
Jan 27th
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ListenWu-Tang Vs The Beatles…  Uh Huh- Method Man...
Jan 27th
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“nellie: wow…a little girl in my class just said “remember when you...”
Jan 27th
The Great Terry Castle →
Jan 26th
It’s Tuesday! It’s New Releases →
Jan 26th
Nobody Wants to Go Home: A Unified Theory of... →
Jan 26th
New David Mitchell Cover →
Jan 25th
1,000 on Twitter →
Jan 25th
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“At any given moment, it might be found to contain business cards, tides tables,...”
– Michael Chabon- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union On the contents of Detective Landsman’s “so-called notebook, a small, fat sheaf of paper held together with an extra large paperclip.”
Jan 25th
Confessions of a Book Pirate →
Jan 25th
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“Unmated shoes, fur hats, a trumpet, a windup zeppelin. A collection of wax...”
– Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Regarding the contents of the lost&found in the dark basement of the hotel Zemenhof…
Jan 25th
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1)Lists. 2)Books. 3)Quotes.
I really, really, REALLY like lists.  I make lists about anything and everything. here is a list of things I often makes lists about, in no particular order (until we get to the end which will bring me to my next point): Things i find in my purses.  I do not know why, but I find it very therapeutic. And often really depressing or at least amazing.  And others fine it wildly entertaining, so there...
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“The old man speaks then, inhaling the words, his voice a dinosaurian ghost.”
– Michael Chabon- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Jan 24th
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists... →
Jan 24th
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“The swingers and vacationers gave way to a population of upper-lowlifes, Russian...”
– Michael Chabon- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Jan 23rd
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“New York City is a magical place and even if someone tells you that there is a...”
– Laura.52books@gmail.com, re: thoughts & reactions on Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer.
Jan 22nd
Kafka’s last living friend remembers →
Jan 22nd
Bookless in Laredo →
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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“hagen.aj: holy loud fart my boss just ripped a huge fart”
Jan 22nd
Welcome Emily St. John Mandel! →
Jan 22nd
Free Kindles for Big Readers →
Jan 22nd
The Music in My Head →
Jan 22nd
YouTube Comment Haikus
wondertonic: Every day, millions of beautiful words are written as YouTube comments, but sadly few are ever saved for posterity. Here is a collection of haikus made from actual YouTube comments. Each line is a single comment. From “the only real way to get free gold on runescape”: fat ass g@y 4uck dude fuck you you 7 year old ur so ugly! noob From “Call of Duty 4 - Host REALLY sucks...
Jan 22nd
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WatchWatch
Holy. Amazing. Dungeons & Dragons Docu rolls in to town starting February.
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
In Tablet Battle, Amazon and Apple Could Slight... →
Jan 21st
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Hulu - The Jay Leno Show: Dealing With the Public,... →
I’m turning into a Werewolf!!! AMAZING. #werewolves
Jan 21st
Monkeys and Donkeys →
Jan 21st
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Favorite Book Blog- The Millions →
Jan 21st
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David Horvitz  →
he is my favorite.  I bought his newsprints and he sent a handwritten “Thanks!” with an exclamation point. Next month I am going to mail him a disposable camera once i put photo netting on my wall for the prints i get back  Whenever I am having a bad day or sad i look at his site.
Jan 21st
Jan 21st