Reviews, Top N lists, and other sundry literary stuff.
So now, ye should prolly ken tha I jist finished up this Irvine Welsh cunt’s book ehs cault Porno. I cannae honestly be puttin masel n a spot of callin it the bes book ays ever read, likesay. But I’d some kinda daft liar if I cault it pure trash also! I cannae rightly say […]
10 OS X Apps You Might Not Know About But Should via The Apple Blog (via 43f) (tags: Mac OSX software) Humpback whales have “human” brain cells via Reuters.com: “So long and thanks for all the fish.” (tags: science research) 100 Notable Books of the Year via NY Times Book Review (via aspiringlibrarian) (tags: literature […]
Wow. I feel so fucking vindicated. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball calls Infinite Jest “the best novel I’ve ever read.” I would take it one step further. This is the most important novel I have read in my lifetime. Gruber cites a passage from the truly glorious Dave Eggers’ forward to the new paperback […]
How to embed Flickr slideshows via Lifehacker (tags: flickr howto blog hack) The Making and Meaning of Naked Lunch via kuro5hin.org (tags: essay writing literature research burroughs todo)
This bit from Wired is making the rounds the past day or so and my copy came in the mail yesterday; I’ll chime in, too. Their sub-title: 33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction. Six of my favorites: Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time (Alan Moore) Longed for him. Got him. Shit. (Margaret Atwood) It […]
False 45th (tags: Vermont blog music) Charlie’s Diary Blog of author Charlie Stross (tags: blog writing scifi future fiction politics) The Brights’ Net (tags: atheism politics secularism science) Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers (tags: essay atheism science politics todo) Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories Six-word short stories from sci-fi authors, futurists, etc. Some […]
Walken cast as Fox; it almost works but misses. Still beats Mnemonic. SPOILER WARNING: Honestly, New Rose Hotel would have been truly great but only if Abel Ferrara had had the presence of mind to keep it as a 30-45 minute short film. Instead, he tells the story twice: first as a really effective (and […]
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a truly remarkable book that has already taken a high place in my literary pantheon of Sheer Genius. What starts out as a young detective’s murder mystery (with a nice hook) quickly turns into a far more sensitive and provocative tale than I […]
Via Boing Boing (where else?): Doctorow’s new one Truncat is an indirect sequel to one of my “new favorites”, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Totally stoked.
A couple of nice article slugs on LifeHacker about how to keep a budget and how to manage your emergency fund… B^2 plug for Dale Bailey‘s collection The Resurrection Man’s Legacy. Looks like it will be a good bunch of reading. Pink’s Wired article “What Kind of Genius Are You?” is available online. Interesting read: […]