September 2011
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“The creative process is imagination, memories, nightmares, and dismantling...”
– Inebreational Travelogue: Tom Waits on Being Called a Poet : Harriet, at The Poetry Foundation
Via Alison Croggon on Twitter.
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Jessamyn finds a post on what drives people to... →
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Much food for thought here: The End of the Web by... →
via @flexnib on Twitter.
Plenty of dirt on Facebook and Open Graphs. I am going to read the 50-plus comments later today.
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“As a culture, it was, and sometimes still is, far from perfect: enclosed and...”
– At their best, newspapers became beautiful objects - Ian Jack, Comment is free | The Guardian
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“Suddenly, a newspaper is fresh“ - Andrew... →
OutLoud, Teen poetry slams at MWF, TO WATCH. →
Thanks to @easybee for the link.
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“His style was later said to have been influenced by Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude...”
– James Salter reviews a new bio of Hemingway in the NYRB. Link via Maud Newton, but on Twitter (@maudnewton).
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Vintage Versions of Modern Social Media from... →
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giramondo publishing: news, books, offers, eat...
Giramondo is celebrating the release of three fine new collections of poetry by John Mateer, Joanne Burns and Fiona Wright with a special book deal. Order all three books for $50- at a saving of 30%. Postage is included free.
and there’s more…
Giramondo has inaugurated two new series of books - New and Selected collections by distinguished Australian poets; and Giramondo Shorts, a...
Neil Young Releasing Autobiography Next Year -... →
Via the Paris Review, no less.
Young’s father was a sportswriter. This could be all right.
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Review: The Long and the Short of It: Poems... →
I will get hold of him and read him, thanks to this. (Scroll down.)
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15 tips to get the most out of Google Docs - TNW... →
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The Reckoning: America and the World a Decade... →
Thanks to Adrian McKinty for this link.
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“I was more concerned with committing on paper a variety of abuses, such as...”
– Thomas Pynchon
In Which We Get You Writing Something Dark And Very Disturbed - Home - This Recording
Link via the Kill Your Darlings blog, to these superb snippings from writers on writing. BUCKETS of good stuff here.
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“Before coming to the West Bank, Nathan worked for years as piano tuner, which...”
– An Occupation | Online Only | Granta:
Beautiful story by Adam Stumacher.
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more from ReadWriteWeb: how Tumblr is changing... →
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If You've Never Heard of Pinterest, You're a Big... →
I think I fibbed when I said I was having a break, a few posts ago…have done some of the many small things that needed doing, however. And Stephany posts amazing things on Pinterest, which I love looking at too.
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Brandeis Special Collections Spotlight: S.M.S.... →
Link via 50 Watts. Another blog for the feedreader (sigh). So much internet, so little time…!!
(And an interesting alternative for that acronym, too.)
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Peter Ackroyd gives his pick of Five Books on... →
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“Storied News Limited literary insert The Australian Literary Review will publish...”
– Australian Literary Review will fold - Crikey
Leaving you on Tumblr with this: What’s the plan... →
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end of year break....early
Yep, I’m horribly behind with many small things. They all take time to do, so that means less time online, guys.
I will be lurking for a break here and there, but don’t expect more than the occasional link or two…including one to my review of Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears, which is one of the larger things I’m doing.
Barring that, if I don’t see you, have a...
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“This polyphonic book has different voices for the stages of Byatt’s life...”
– Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by AS Byatt – review by Peter Conrad.
what do you know about Shadow prizes? Kim at... →
some serious reading here. From The Guardian →
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