Sex and the Witty
There’s Something Wrong with Sven combines imaginative leaps worthy of Calvino and Vonnegut with tragicomic irreverence of the George Saunders variety.
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The Sketchy History of Times New Roman
“The case that Parker makes about the real origins of Times New Roman stands on narrow foundations. The sole piece of surviving evidence for his version of history is a…
Morning Coffee
Not really sure what these are, but they sure are pretty. Faces from The Wire. Don’t know what to tweet? You’re welcome. Bicycle “ticketed” for being badass and unique. A…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Alison Flood, writing in The Guardian implores her fellow citizens to vote in the BBC’s poll for the nation’s favorite poet. She’s worried that there will be a rehash of…
One Way Translation Matters
A German court recently ruled that Nazi slogans translated into a language other than German would not necessarily run afoul of that nation’s anti-Nazi laws. According to the article, the…
Shameless Self-Promotion
Self, in this case, being a member of The Rumpus, not me personally. Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants, the blog How to Party With an Infant and our…
Are these really advances?
I think I mixed some Haterade in with my coffee this morning, because the technology news has me shaking my head and wondering if some of these things being touted…
Study Confirms Existence of the Itis
Aaron Magruder Creator of The Boondocks, must feel vindicated by food science these days. A study in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology seems to…
Saturday Morning Links
Morning, everyone. Here are some links to get your weekend started. I suspect that I’ll never be buying in a bar where bartenders harvest the grain that makes their spirits.…
A Theory of Social Justice
I’ve previously mentioned The Examined Life, the film and book that examines the views of eight contemporary philosophers, and after watching the film American Casino yesterday — which investigates the…
Choose Your Own “Adventure”
In his post “The Limits of Narrative” Mark Pritchard links to Alison Flood’s recent article “How I learned to cheat at reading” in which she writes “It was the Choose…