via The Rumpus
Japan: Before and After (rollovers)
(developed by Andrew Kesper for ABC News using Google)
A Japanese girl was standing outside Flinders Street Station today asking people to write notes to the people of Japan. She’d then take your picture and, I guess, post it somewhere? I don’t know. But christ, what do you say? I scrawled something trite but well-meaning and then made sure I took off my sunglasses and didn’t smile.
'What I Really Want is Someone Rolling Around in the Text': Sam Anderson on marginalia
This, it seems to me, would be something like a readerly utopia. It could even (if we want to get all grand and optimistic) turn out to be a Gutenberg-style revolution — not for writing, this time, but for reading.
New York Times Magazine, 4 March 2011
Nicole Krauss on the End of Bookstores
To browse in a bookstore, however, is to explore a highly selective and thoughtful collection of the world—thoughtful because hundreds of years of thinkers, writers, critics, teachers, and readers have established the worth of the choices.
New Republic, 3 March 2011
Beckett, dog, cat.
Rules of Misbehavior - Benjamin J. Dueholm
Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed?
“Hello Jesus, I’m glad I believed in you all my life, because I am obviously now in heaven, because I am eating a potpie made out of a cheeseburger.”
In which David (Get Your War On) Rees recaps the premiere of America’s Next Great Restaurant. [Grub Street]
