Hi everyone! Thought for the day: love is listening to your girlfriend laugh while she beats your stepdad at Hearts. And now, book blogs!
“When I’m feeling stimulated, I like to read fiction, and when my life feels sterile, I don’t.” — Kevin Hartnett quotes his wife in When I’m In The Mood For Fiction at The Millions.
Here is a very-good write-up of the career of Mario Vargas Llosa, who just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And here’s another, by Jane Smiley.
Things that are scary: Counterpoint, home of Soft Skull Press, is closing it’s New York office. (Soft Skull will continue out of Counterpoint’s Berkeley office.) (via)
River Styx is having a flash contest where they’ll give the winner a case of beer. (and $1500, but let’s be honest, it’s the beer that makes you want to submit something, isn’t it?) (via)
Here’s a new monthly column on the financial situations of young writers that has the potential to be brilliant, but can you trust anything sponsored by American Express?
