I am fascinated by this sort of thing: the failure of empathy. (via Gerry Canavan.) I’m not entirely sure why you’d want a garden on top of a bus. Bubble photography.…
Another day, another batch of Census of Marine Life photos. Lydia Davis on translation. (we are intellectuals.) This is what the internet has come to: famous graphic novels as dime-store…
This week in San Francisco, get your book on every night of the week with Litquake, Dave Cooper at the Cartoon Art Museum, the centennial episode of Literary Death Match,…
This week in New York Joyce Carol Oates goes Sour, Adult Education presents “The Future of Books,” Cunningham reads By Nightfall, David Marson is remembered, Winner and Clarke come together…
Incredible pictures of human landscapes in South West Florida (seem like a good way to start a week). (via Michael Zelenko.) This pasta is also a whistle for some reason.…
Harriet points to an article in Newsweek about literature in Mexico, and then writes “Recently, Mexico has seen a surge in independent publishing houses willing to publish new writers. Meanwhile,…
D.W. Lichtenberg at We Who Are About to Die links to Columbia Professor Janette Turner Hospital’s email to her former students at the University of South Carolina and suggests that,…
Most of the space news this week has surrounded Gliese 581G, the first planet found to reside in the so-called “Goldilocks zone.” But we have a much closer visitor in…