September 2009
18 posts
3 tags
Another Quality Literary Website
Last week at The Occasional, I heartily recommended The Millions as a literary website worth visiting.
I’m just dipping into another site called The Quarterly Conversation, which takes a refreshingly global approach to literature. Lots of reviews, essays, and interviews on novelists and poets from many places and cultures. The sensibility seems earnest, even a little academic (not that...
August 2009
321 posts
The Internet: Distracting ourselves into a new Dark Age or dawn of a new Renaissance? Cont’d: http://bit.ly/25sTtA
Obscure, narrow, and fascinating micromuseums http://bit.ly/3IBUH5 @SmithsonianMag
Naomi Klein Abandons BBC “Shock Doctrine” Documentary http://bit.ly/18lKvQ RT @reasonmag
NEA’s Rocco Landesman plays penance in Peoria. http://bit.ly/Zd2TZ RT @DesignObserver
Just watched #MadMen from last night. Boring. Disappointing. Let’s pick it up guys.
Beautifully intricate letterpress work RT @kristaprints: hindu rice-eating ceremony invitations http://bit.ly/4FhKse
Purple Terror in Baltimore: Grape juice spill shuts down Ponca at Boston. http://bit.ly/3YryZF RT @baltimoresun
http://twitpic.com/fyo2y - @GusSent Breakfast of Champions
RT @drmabuse: Good Books Don’t Have to Be Read by Lev Grossman http://bit.ly/LrKg4
Literary meta tiff this morning as @drmabuse attacks @leverus for writing that it’s ok to have plot in literature
Newsweek article on unconscious plagiarism: psychological sloppiness or outright fraud? http://bit.ly/3jvzBS RT @joiedelivre
RT @sciam: An Update on C. P. Snow’s “Two Cultures” (science and the arts) http://bit.ly/21s1M
Kid finally asleep-may catch last bit of “Big Broadcast” WFUV.org RT @RichConaty: Billie Holiday, Fletcher Henderson & Astaire.
School district won’t allow marching band to wear “evolution” T-shirts. http://bit.ly/2YEWs2 RT @paleofuture @stevesilberman
Saarinen’s sweeping modernist TWA Flight Center virtually restored by GGI http://ff.im/7olVh RT @oalgar
I don’t need to be a Google Voice tester to feel cool, I have a BaltTech magnet (@GusSent) http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/technology/
Somerset Maugham: the most debauched man of the 20th century? http://bit.ly/3WLU69
A cure for the maddening saturation of Boomer nostalgia: PJ O’Rourke reviews three Woodstock books: http://bit.ly/sF8W1
September 2009 Book Releases: very interesting titles coming… http://bit.ly/klmXF RT @aboutbooks
Not to mention “The Happening,” Keanu’s “Day the Earth Stood Still” and other humanity-deserves-what’s-coming-to-it movies
Is humanity itself the new Hollywood villain? 3 makes a trend: (WALL-E; http://www2.avatarmovie.com; http://www.battleforterra.com)
Some snoozers aside, I’m grateful my K-12 teachers made me read stuff I never would have chosen. Now this idiocy: http://bit.ly/9i3Hp
Old Chicago Post Office sold off for $40M. No firm plans yet for beauty of a building big as Sears Tower http://bit.ly/an271 RT @archpaper
Book Review: ‘The Making of Amercians’ E.D. Hirsch’s often lonely fight for cultural literacy http://bit.ly/LVP7g
After more than 2000 years of habitation, humans abandoned the island of St Kilda in 1930 http://bit.ly/eUGQe via @BBCHistoryMag
Is conservatism dead? James Piereson on new Sam Tanenhaus book http://is.gd/2GhA8 RT @walterolson
Ramin Bahrani discussing cinema on the DVD release of his film GOODBYE SOLO: http://bit.ly/12wjBp RT @aravindadiga
I find 60s psychedelic art totally nauseating. Enjoy: RT @DesignObserver: http://bit.ly/jaLdd
RT @johnperrybarlow: In Wyoming, I can’t sleep. I creep outside am startled by stars. And the silence. And the air, cold like springwater.
Interesting: @joiedelivre points to a @leverus piece arguing that good books don’t have to be “difficult” http://bit.ly/s97WY
RT @thebookmaven: Reading Rainbow… We need a petition! Kids deserve a show emphasizing the love of reading (hey @levarburton)
Smart kids “left behind” in new US education landscape? http://bit.ly/POhgx
Why doesn’t the film industry give more $ for film history? RT @nytimesarts: Movie Buffs vs. LACMA http://bit.ly/T1Kks
Listening to Arvo Part’s haunting “In Principio” http://bit.ly/21dzSv
Hoping it holds… RT @insidecharmcity: Orioles lead 13-3
Good discussion of new media and old school values on Milt Rosenberg show http://bit.ly/2F7Ui9 #milt720
Follow, follow, follow: On art/design & society: @vpostrel @courrielche On books: @readstreet @PD_Smith #ff
Lame: Wuthering Heights disguised as a Twilight book to trick tween readers into picking it up http://bit.ly/CKrqa
RT @paidContent: Digital Philanthropy Round-Up: Brin Gives To Creative Commons; Omidyar Backs Wikimedia http://cnt.to/hsP
Huh. RT @culturemonster: More details emerge on future of ‘Louis & Keely’ musical http://bit.ly/4fcPyN
Ha. Agreed RT @artsworker: #Talented person I would not want to have dinner with winner: Quentin Tarantino
Slightly late to the party, but I think @michaelianblack and co. are hilarious on http://www.hulu.com/stella
New Tracy Kidder: “an important and absolutely gripping, mind-altering book” *Strength in What Remains* http://bit.ly/13Vhdh
Preserving modernist architecture neglected by the National Park Service http://bit.ly/Z0T3W
In the Land of Invented Languages… Esperanto, Klingon and more: http://bit.ly/3JWVfP
RT @Criterion: You would not believe the line for signed Last Days of Disco discs at Lincoln Center. People really love Whit Stillman!
“Nontheist support for the military.” ~ http://is.gd/2CPy0 RT @Richard_Dawkins (attn: @secularright)
I’d like to hear an explanation from the National Endowment for the Arts, but this sounds inappropriate http://bit.ly/49uBTz
