Saturday Morning Links
Let’s begin with some cool art. Here’s a selection of extraordinary early 20th-century book covers from Japan, courtesy of A Journey Round My Skull. Benjamin Franklin advises: don’t start flamewars.…
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Jeremy Hatch
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Jeremy Hatch is a writer, musician, and professional bookseller leading a cheerful, aimless life in San Francisco. He is the Junior Literary Editor of the Rumpus and has a blog which he updates once in a while.
Swoon Invades Venice
While we’re on the subject of the Venice Biennale, New York Magazine has an interesting article about the artist Swoon and her latest project, The Swimming Cities of Serenissima: a…
Caleb Crain Makes His Blog a Book
I’ll confess that I’d never heard of the wonderful blog Steamboats Are Ruining Everything until it made an appearance in book form. Yesterday I saw Levi Stahl’s post on Conversational…
Harvard Study ‘Punctures Twitter Hype’
That’s the claim of a BBC News article which quotes the study’s lead researcher, Bill Heil, as follows: “Twitter is a broadcast medium rather than an intimate conversation with friends,”…
Blue Collar: A 1978 Film for 2009
While catching up on my long-neglected film reading, I found this fascinating article by Saul Austerlitz about Paul Schrader’s debut film, Blue Collar, which stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and…
The Storymatic
I’ve always been a sucker for writing prompts, even though they have a way of sometimes being cheesy, forced, and ultimately silly. But recently I came across this interesting product,…
Working, as Adapted by Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar, the only famous comic-book creator who isn’t an artist himself, last month released a graphic adaptation of Studs Terkel’s Working with The New Press. Dave Gilson summarizes it…
The Machine that Changed the World
Just in case you were looking for a compelling 5-part documentary series to watch for free over the weekend, consider The Machine that Changed the World, a history of computing…
Louis Menand on Creative-Writing Programs
Louis Menand has really been on a roll this year. First the must-read article about how the Village Voice changed journalism, then the article on Donald Barthelme, and now this…
On the Inner Voice
In preparation for a move, I’ve been cleaning out my files, and today I found an article I clipped from the June 2005 issue of Harper’s Magazine and stowed away:…
The “Complete” Cosmicomics of Italo Calvino
Scott Esposito of The Quarterly Conversation reports that later this year, Penguin UK will publish a so-called complete Cosmicomics. The volume combines stories “which had previously been spread out across…