Found in Translation
Open Letter Books has only been around for a year and has only published 16 titles, none of which have sold more than 3,000 copies. Yet the small publishing house…
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The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies
“Where cult films go academics will follow.” The NYT ruminates on how The Big Lebowski spawned scholarship on dudedom.
Gainsbourg in Gowanus via Beck
In celebration of the January release of IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s latest album, which was produced by Beck, Gainsbourg will be performing two shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn (1/19,…
Morning Coffee
It is getting increasingly hard to fill this section with anything but year-end retrospectives, but I like this graph quite a bit. Hubble’s best images of 2009 (see above). The…
Wry Humor, Dark Wisdom, Lissome Women, Cigarettes
I think French film entices me because I know so little about French language and culture; it suggests an as-yet-unexplored world of magical, incomprehensible people.
The Swamp Ladies of Estonia
Putting together this post of Estonian children’s books, I found myself squirming with delight and confusion. I hope something similar happens to you when scrolling through it!
Le Guin Resigns
Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of “21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, 12 books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation,”…
Random Media Notes
Amazon reports that Kindle Books outsold real books on Christmas day (and Mashable shows why that’s just PR smoke and mirrors). An argument for schools to stop blocking social networking…