Handwriting on your laptop
Margaret Atwood’s Long Pen is just the beginning. The new digital implements are amazingly versatile. (Thanks, Max.)
Margaret Atwood’s Long Pen is just the beginning. The new digital implements are amazingly versatile. (Thanks, Max.)
As you probably know, Governor Paterson issued a directive last week requiring New York agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Since then, several groups and politicians have threatened challenges, the Christian Alliance Defence Fund has actually sued, and the state’s conservative party released a statement accusing the Governor of acting “without giving New Yorkers the opportunity to . . .
For years I’ve hoarded some of my stranger and darker experiences, with the intent of twisting parts of them into my novel. My narrator is not — and never was supposed to be — me, but I’ve inflicted many events from my own life on her. Even when they didn’t fit. Recently I’ve been writing nonfiction about some of these . . .
David Foster Wallace, whose 2000 essay about McCain evokes its era — and lives again — talks with the WSJ about the candidate now. (Via.)
“You have been screwed. You are the screwee. Own it.” Ever had a problem and wondered, what would Martin Amis do?