Scattering of nutshells
Portrait of the writer in first sentences: Carrie Frye contrasts Nabokov’s color field with Muriel Spark’s.
Portrait of the writer in first sentences: Carrie Frye contrasts Nabokov’s color field with Muriel Spark’s.
Dan Rhodes wins the 2010 E.M. Forster Award, which presumably means he’ll make an appearance on these shores soon. (Via.)
What will happen to your email account, blog, or Twitter feed when you die? New online lockboxes allow you to specify beforehand who’ll get your passwords, which private Flickr photos should be purged, and what final status should be posted at Facebook, but these services are no substitute for a will. And writers and other artists should be especially careful . . .
Not only did David Rakoff star in the Oscar-winning The New Tenants, he adapted the script. (I learned this from Gerald DeCock, stylist extraordinaire, today.)
As an amateur genealogist, I’m relieved to see same-sex marriages will be reflected in the 2010 census.