January 2011
39 posts
“The royal wedding may be three months away, but the art world is getting its...”
– This week’s arts diary | Culture | The Guardian
And yes, there is a shocking typo in the headline on the webpage. It came up in the feeds as well. Made me read it though.
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bibliotherapist at School of Life blog in fine... →
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Ian Gawler blog: Retreat and go forward →
Dr Gawler is recently retired - his employees say he is hardly resting however, and this blog is part of his own particular brand of busyness. Well worth your time.
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Nicholas Carr Reviews Douglas Coupland's "Marshall... →
…and claims that
Though the founders of Wired magazine would posthumously appoint McLuhan as the “patron saint” of the digital revolution, the real McLuhan was more a Luddite than a technophile. He would have found the collective banality of Facebook and other social networks abhorrent, if also fascinating.
Link from The Second Pass.
Sketching, the Visual Thinking Power Tool →
At A List Apart (‘for people who build websites’!) by Mike Rohde. I will read this laaaater. There’s also an article on the power of doodling…excuse me while I finish crosshatching my profile here….
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Barbra Streisand's House has a shopping mall in... →
oh Babs. REALLY.
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White Egrets by Derek Walcott has won the T.S.... →
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a larger than usual, booki.sh pile of stuff #9
Gracia and Louise, artists from Melbourne, have a board up at Pinterest, a new social bookmarking site which is VERY PRETTY. (So is their work which you can see here.)
Making huge news in Australian publishing today is the new e-bookstore at Readings, a partnership between the Melbourne independent bookchain and Inventive Labs, a local software company and developers of Booki.sh, a cloud-based...
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Greta Gerwig on her role in Whit Stillman's... →
thanks to Matthew Perpetua for the link. A new fillum from Stillman, fabuloso!!!
The actress says of working on the film:
“I was so scared when we first started because I so clearly have… you know, the way Chris Eigeman says things, or the way Kate Beckinsale in “The Last Days of Disco” says things, it’s so burned in my mind. The way they talk. And I didn’t want to imitate them, but I was...
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“*A satisfaction from having read through the carefully cultivated list of Web...”
– The Book Bench: Read This Book If: You’ve Got Five New Emotions : The New Yorker
I second Macy’s five ‘happy Internet emotions’.
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another pile of stuff #8
At Mobylives Valerie Merians reports on the pioneering library which is lending out Kindles and Nooks.
Edwidge Danticat has published some essays, one on writing dangerously which comes highly recommended.
If John Williams recommends the recently departed Wilfrid Sheed, then at some stage I shall have to take a gander at his work.
As I may have mentioned already on Twitter, Knopf has announced...
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“At the beginning of the century EM Forster urged us to “only...”
– the psychopathology of everyday life - Adrian McKinty’s blog: Edward Hopper at the Whitney
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THE MARSH OF TIME (Peter Kenneally's blog):... →
Peter has a range of river posts in this blog that are very appealing. I particularly like this one though, mainly for the story about the friend who stared at punks, and the Germans who wanted to buy ‘shirt’.
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New Kindle Lending Club Matches E-Book Borrowers... →
One does wonder two things: 1. what would a library start looking like if there were lots of these outfits
2. what will happen if Amazon pulls the plug on borrowing?
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found while rrrrramblin' →
thanks to Archive and Conquer for the link.
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where grief has a home
Giving grief its own corner : Maud Newton
Talking to Grief
Ah, grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes to the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I should trust you.
I should coax you into the house and give you your own corner, a worn mat to lie on, your own water dish.
You think I don’t know you’ve been living under my porch. You long for your real...
Edmund White's top 10 New York books | Books |... →
This is the kind of list I like. A lot.
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The Passion of the Literary Challenge - the Book... →
Ed Champion determines he will read his way through a Top 100 list of novels from the Modern Languages Association. I am content to count how many of the 100 - plus (there are series included) I have already read - round about 34 which is not too shabby (all the Lawrence and two Joyce.) There’s also a half-dozen I’ve started and abandoned guiltily, and one or two I own and have not yet...
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