- It seems appropriate to start this off with HTMLGIANT picking “Favorite First Sentences“
- Papercuts points out that Thomas Pynchon is in fact, from the East Coast, and there needs to be an interactive map of Pynchon’s New York in response to the interactive map of LA that Wired provided us with last month.
- While some people are spending their summer reading Infinite Jest, Conversational Reading is working on “Westward the Course of the Empires Takes it’s Way”, and says it’s “Crude, naive, pretentious–absolutely”, but goes on to say “it’s still a novella worth discussing at length”. And they do just that.
- I have been known to be one of those douchebags that sits for hours and hours at a coffee shop, buying only one cup of coffee, and hording the internet. I feel somewhat bad about this, but coffee shops are fighting back against people like me.
- The Dumbing of America (great name) interviews David Gutowski aka Largehearted Boy
- Heeb interviews Akron/Family. (Full disclosure, I did this interview)