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Curiosities: Return to the Monkey House

By Editor posted at 3:14 pm on April 19, 2009 1

The Walking Tour is drawing ever nearer! Get all the details and RSVP if you want to be notified of any schedule changes.
In the NYRB, Mark Danner examines the politics of torture, and J.M. Coetzee gets deep inside Samuel Beckett’s head.
James Wood finger-drumming on YouTube is just the most weirdly hypnotic thing we’ve ever seen.
Typewriter-part art. (via The Rumpus)
A new front runner in the coolest bookshelf contest. Think of it – geographic classification! (for American lit only)
“Geoff Dyer book unlikely to win Bad Sex Award“
Jane Austen got rejection letters too.
Wow. A new Kurt Vonnegut collection is on the way. Amazon has it listed.
A glimmer of good news in the newspaper business?
Audrey Niffenegger is having a pretty good recession.
Further Reading: Kevin’s list of families and fiction has garnered many additions from readers in the comments.

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One Response to “Curiosities: Return to the Monkey House”

Garth Risk Hallberg
at 9:56 am on April 20, 2009
I thought I was the only person weird enough to do geographic ordering of my bookshelves…

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