6 month ago
Rod Begbie : Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less - "Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!" #
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12 month ago
gleuschk : ReadMe - Mefi Wiki - book-related Ask Metafilter questions, all collected and categorized.
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13 month ago
philgyford : Best Literature Blog - The 2007 Weblog Awards - Please vote for Pepys' Diary, currently in second place. We need your vote! Vote early and often (yes you can vote once every 24 hours). Thanks!
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14 month ago
deusx : Public radio station in NYC won't air "Howl" for fear of the FCC - Boing Boing - "The FCC's war on dirty words is having a chilling effect -- even WBAI Pacifica, the radical radio station in NYC, is scared of airing Allen Ginsberg's magnificent poem, Howl."
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gleuschk : A Reader's Manifesto - An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose
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17 month ago
gleuschk : Christopher Plummer as Nabokov lecturing on Kafka - pretty awesome
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18 month ago
adamrg : Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Cory is understandably crushed by this news. I had suspected that the authoritarian government that was represented in the 1967 film was partially responsible for this view of the book.
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23 month ago
gleuschk : You’re Seriously Asking Me for My View on “The English Patient?†- that Charlie Rose interview with DFW
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jimray : George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
adamrg : George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Ethan Marcotte : George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language - Saving this 'cause I've never read it. Which makes me retroactively hate my school's English department even more. ∞
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26 month ago
jkottke : Wired asked some prominent writers to pen their own six word stories - Following the lead of the Six Word Story group on Flickr and Caterina's prompt, Wired asked some prominent writers to pen their own six word stories. "Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ('For sale: baby shoes, never worn.') and is said to have
jimray : Wired collects six word stories from a bunch of scifi writers - Easy. Just touch the match to
Aquarion : Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories - Six word stories by people like Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman and other famous people.
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26 month ago
gleuschk : NPR : Uncovering the 'True' History of the Funerary Violin - expand the notion of musical composition to encompass the creation of an entire artistic genre, with its necessary accompanying history, mythology, philosophy, social function, etc.
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27 month ago
joshua : DailyLit - recieve book fragments on a regular schedule to your mail inbox
philgyford : DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS. - Read books, bit by bit, day by day, by email or RSS and gradually read a whole book.
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27 month ago
jimray : McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One - "And observe the map device here — how the map is itself completely Gondor-centric."
cobra libre : Unused Audio Commentary by Zinn and Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) - "'Sauron the Deceiver.' That is what Strider, the ranger with multiple names, calls Sauron. A ranger. I believe today we call them serial killers." #
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jimray : Adam Gopnik takes a look at the president's summer reading list - "But it is the sunny optimism of humanism to imagine that books change lives, and that no one can come away from 'The Stranger' entirely unaffected, particularly one who is, as he reminds us, a wartime President."
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jkottke : Author (and reader) Nick Hornby on how to read - Author (and reader) Nick Hornby on how to read. "Please, if you're reading a book that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a television programme."
philgyford : How to Read - Nick Hornby - "If you don't read the classics, or the novel that won this year's Booker Prize, then nothing bad will happen to you; more importantly, nothing good will happen to you if you do" (via Kottke)
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31 month ago
plasticbag : if:book talks about how we will handle and publish literary correspondence in the age of e-mail - My favourite part of this article is the conversation about how you'd create an annotatable, taggable and explorable resource around Dave Eggers' Inbox. Not sure I'd be enormously keen to have my e-mail on display in the same way of course...
philgyford : If:book: the selected, annotated outbox of dave eggers - When reading reviews of books about someone's letters I've wondered what will be gleaned in the future from someone who only uses email. (via plasticbag)
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32 month ago
erikbenson : A negative review of Alain de Botton's new book, "The Architecture of Happiness" - I loved Status Anxiety but this review makes me think this newest book isn't as good. I should work my way backwards.
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36 month ago
kellan : Tom Tomorrow on the Times' unhealthy addiction to madeleines (and Proust) - "It appears to be an unwritten rule at the Times that no article about either (a) memory or (b) cookies &emdash; or even (c) the sense of smell &emdash; can be published without a mention, preferably in the lede paragraph, of Proust and/or his madeleines. #
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37 month ago
gleuschk : Милорад Павић :: khazars.com » ENGLISH - Milorad Pavic
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37 month ago
kellan : "The problem, though, is that the Unbearable Lightness of Being is a really bad book. - Milan Kundera is the Dave Matthews of Slavic letters." On Dating without Kundera. Doubles as a graduate level course in Slavic literature. #
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38 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : 1-star Amazon reviews of classic books
jimray : The Morning News - Lone Star Statements, by Matthew Baldwin - Bad reviews of brilliant literature. Lord of the Flies: “I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun. WRONG!!! It is incredibly boring and disgusting." God bless America.
jkottke : One-star reviews of best books - Select one-star reviews from Amazon of books on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English language novels since 1923 (discussion).
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