December 6, 2006
Short Takes
Goodnight, moon. Hey there, long, dark night of the soul! (via The Millions) Hello, moon! “Blogs and websites are reversing 450 years of media trends” is the soundbite sentence of […]
December 5, 2006
Really, John Derbyshire?
From “The Dream Palace of Educational Theorists“: There is the public school racket, in which homeowners and taxpayers fork out stupendous sums of money to feed a socialistic extravaganza in […]
December 5, 2006
College “Student-Athletes”
I’ve never liked football, and this sort of thing just kills me. From the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required): More than a third of the 64 college football teams […]
December 5, 2006
Short Takes
A big day for Critical Mass: Margaret Atwood and Adrienne Rich. Richard Ford is not–repeat not–a Southern writer. I have not talked to John Updike. He seems rather vaguely pissed […]
December 4, 2006
Short Takes
And who doesn’t have a busy schedule and a bad memory these days? (via fade theory) Dahl is that kind of writer, the rare kind who pole-axes you when first […]
December 3, 2006
An Interview with Frank Wilson, Part II
Frank Wilson is the book editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he has worked since 1980, and as of this writing, he is not on strike. When he is not […]
December 2, 2006
An Interview with Frank Wilson, Part I
Frank Wilson is the book editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he has worked since 1980, and as of this writing, he is not on strike. When he is not […]
December 1, 2006
Short Takes
Levi Asher writes up the first part of his Festivus book review bonanza, and is promising more next week. I wish there were more blog postings that mentioned Wisawa Symborska, […]
November 30, 2006
Short Takes
Last night I went to the launch party for the second issue of 400 Words, and I’d like to recommend that you all go check the zine out. It’s compulsively […]
November 30, 2006
Influence
Renaissance England had a particular set of metaphors for the way writers existed in a literary tradition or, more generally, for the way people existed in the wake of the […]
November 29, 2006
Short Takes
As the lover of crime fiction knows, you can’t write about the dead without the deadpan; you can’t lose sight of the fact that the more unthinkable a thing is, […]
November 28, 2006
Short Takes
How the open access movement is being expanded to encompass science (one and two). There is no such thing as nonfiction. There is no such thing as truth. People who […]