Curiosities
April 10, 2012
And on and on and on. 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Carl Wilson, author of Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the end of Taste (a book length study of Celine Dion‘s megablockbusting album of the same name), revisits the enduring and sort of nauseating classic from Titanic‘s soundtrack in The Atlantic.
April 10, 2012
Literary Disco 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Literary Disco, a podcast hosted by Julia Pistell, Tod Goldberg, and Rider Strong (yeah! Sean from Boy Meets World!) is just great. In the most recent installment the hosts revisit their bookshelves and describe their new findings from rereading some faves, including Strong’s overwhelming reaction to T.C. Boyle‘s author photo.
April 10, 2012
Not notable?! 0
by Emily M. Keeler
A Nicholson Baker essay on Wikipedia and its pleasures (and its frustrations), has resurfaced in the latest issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
April 10, 2012
Tuesday New Release Day: Rash, Evenson, Sontag, Wallace 0
by C. Max Magee
New this week are Ron Rash’s The Cove, Brian Evenson’s Immobility, and Volume Two of Susan Sontag’s Journals (all books highlighted in our January preview). Out in paperback this week is David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, from which we recently ran a previously unpublished excerpt. Bonus Links: You can now subscribe to listings of [...]
April 9, 2012
Everything Flows 0
by Nick Moran
Have you seen this stunning map which shows “the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US?” It’s positively hypnotic.
April 9, 2012
Next Step: Skynet Becomes Self-Aware 0
by Nick Moran
James Harriman-Smith wants to know what humans can learn from a computer’s reading of Shakespeare’s plays. As it turns out, there’s quite a bit.
