“Getting to Yes with Vonnegut”
It wasn’t easy for Charles J. Shields to get permission to pen Kurt Vonnegut’s biography, but it did include a couple of postcards. (via TheBookBench)
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2011
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Handwritten Jest
“This is the first page of a handwritten draft of Infinite Jest.” (via The Atlantic)
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is a very slow day, so I am opening with a look at an Olympic velodrome arena. We can all agree that it is a bummer that Slash’s guitar…
The Rumpus Interview with Wesley Stace
Wesley Stace is an award-winning writer of three novels—Misfortune, by George, and now Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Should we protect the Internet from “astroturfing” (fake grassroots movements on forums, etc. that are actually run by major companies)? Technology bests the man (again): Smartphone app gets driver out of…
Burroughs Doc A Man Within Giveaway
The recent documentary about William S. Burroughs, A Man Within, was released on DVD last week, and its distributor, Oscilloscope Labs, sent us a copy to give away to one…
This is Solidarity
Author V.V. Ganeshananthan reflects on her choice to attend the 2009 Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka, just 500 kilometers from violent conflict. Ganeshananthan explains why she “refused to disappear”…
Memory, Reason and Imagination
Books once belonging to Thomas Jefferson, our most bibliophilic president, have turned up at Washington University in St. Louis. The books were part of Jefferson’s retirement library, so-called because he…
Meet the Chana Family
“Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.” 1 husband. 39 wives. 94 children. 14-daughters-in-law. 33 grandchildren. The…
10/40/70 #34: Alien
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
“The Comedian’s Tell-All”
“I didn’t perform any of it in front of an audience, which is one of the more interesting and terrifying things about writing a book. You really have no idea…