Staying on top of the newsstand
Brijit offers 100-word abstracts of magazine articles, including some that aren’t available online. (Arts link is here.)
Brijit offers 100-word abstracts of magazine articles, including some that aren’t available online. (Arts link is here.)
Siddhartha Deb says Coetzee’s latest novel performs the kind of work intellectual disciplines like philosophy once did.
While searching for something on YouTube last night, I discovered that Google invites authors to read and discuss their work — and then posts video of the events online. Does everyone else already know this? Above is the clip of Junot Díaz’s appearance, but you can also see Aimee Bender, Tom Bissell, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link & Karen . . .
Never mind the state of emergency, a writer in Pakistan was delighted to see Paris Hilton’s intervention on behalf of drunken Indian elephants.
Due to the aforementioned feral phase, I didn’t make it to the National Book Awards ceremony last night.