February 2010
104 posts
Amazon eBook Pricing Battle Gets Ugly →
January 2010
49 posts
Greed is Good Again →
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…
Bayside High as Playboy Mansion →
The Onion Remembers Salinger →
Brodsky’s Cat: Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s A Room and a... →
Proust’s Arabesk: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan... →
J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010 →
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’…
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J.D. Salinger Dies at 91
What a sad loss…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html
iStephen Fry →
R.I.P J.D. Salinger →
Circular Dread: The Narrative Pleasures of Damages →
Difficult Books: Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov →
Mythbusting: An Inside Look at the Last Days of... →
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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.
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nellie: wow…a little girl in my class just said “remember when you...
The Great Terry Castle →
It’s Tuesday! It’s New Releases →
Nobody Wants to Go Home: A Unified Theory of... →
New David Mitchell Cover →
1,000 on Twitter →
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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.”
Confessions of a Book Pirate →
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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…
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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...
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The old man speaks then, inhaling the words, his voice a dinosaurian ghost.
– Michael Chabon- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists... →
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The swingers and vacationers gave way to a population of upper-lowlifes, Russian...
– Michael Chabon- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
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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.
Kafka’s last living friend remembers →
Bookless in Laredo →
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hagen.aj: holy loud fart my boss just ripped a huge fart
Welcome Emily St. John Mandel! →
Free Kindles for Big Readers →
The Music in My Head →
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...
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Holy. Amazing. Dungeons & Dragons Docu rolls in to town starting February.
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In Tablet Battle, Amazon and Apple Could Slight... →
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Hulu - The Jay Leno Show: Dealing With the Public,... →
I’m turning into a Werewolf!!! AMAZING. #werewolves
Monkeys and Donkeys →
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Favorite Book Blog- The Millions →
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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.