Tom Toles’ Washington Post editorial cartoon, Obama’s Eating of Vegetables Fuels Rumors About Him, satirizes Wednesday’s inane front-page Washington Post story, Foes Use Obama’s Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him.
“When I think about it,” Elizabeth Bishop once wrote to James Merrill, “it seems to me I’ve rarely written anything of value at the desk or in the room where I was supposed to be doing it — it’s always in someone else’s house, or in a bar, or standing up in the kitchen in the middle of the night. . . .
Someone has been spray-painting Thomas Pynchon’s muted trumpet around the UC Santa Barbara campus.
Calvin Baker recommends 5 novels depicting a new world order. Among them: books by Bolaño, Ellison, and Ishiguro.
The 101 Reasons to Stop Writing calendar should fulfill all your demotivation needs for the coming year.