This is what Borges-fans (and isn’t that everyone who can read ?) have been waiting for for ages. (via Conversational Reading)
“I’d like to talk about some books I’ve been reading lately. Because I’m a reader.” The YouTube book discussion (via Critical Mass)
K-Fed’s book deal? One can only hope.
“How come it is that we can, with a mere glance, determine the effectiveness of the opening of someone else’s novel and yet, despite experience and hard work, be unable to see our own clearly?” The short answer, kid, is normativity–although somehow I suspect that question was supposed to be rhetorical.
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) has cried foul after the producers of The CW’s America’s Next Top Model scratched a dozen striking staffers off the payroll. (via Booksquare)
This is the man at whom they laughed at. The woman whom they thought was dead suddenly appeared again. The boy laid for some time and then recovered consciousness. (The first sentence would be perfectly acceptable in Old Norse, the second, in different forms, turns up regularly in the reports of the Associated Press, and the third is by now Standard Midwestern English.)
How do you build a bibliography? Here are some ideas.
Why? There is no single cause, say experts, but rather a confluence of unfortunate events. One of the biggest problems is that the main vehicle for spam – vast networks of home computers infected with malware, known as “botnets” – have been growing in size.
The passionate, sometimes rhythmic, language-like patter that pours forth from religious people who “speak in tongues” reflects a state of mental possession, many of them say. Now they have some neuroscience to back them up.