January 2011
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'the winner will then come to Paris and read at...
Over the last few months the staff at Shakespeare and Company have been busily reading hundreds of anonymous entries for the Shakespeare and Company literary prize. After reading submissions late into the night, we then meet up every week to decide on what stories capture, delight and surprise us.
A long list will be drawn up and then sent to the judges Erica Wagner, author and literary...
“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’. 