Just wanted to start your day off with this photo titled “Journalists at a Microsoft press conference”. (Via Clusterflock)
Lit.
- Cristina Nehring wasn’t too happy with Emily Gould’s review of her book, A Vindication of Love. (thanks HTMLGiant)
- The ongoing series exploring what the late Roberto Bolaño read over at MobyLives has made for good reading. Discussed today is Bolaño’s love of French lit.
- Newsrooms as training grounds for fiction writers?
- Mashable gives us their thoughts on Barnes and Nobles Nook.
- SF Panorama making Missed connections
- A Seattle bookseller is moving.
- George Clooney is saving novels.
- Tao Lin on Shoplifting From American Apparel being sold at Urban Outfitters:
I fantasized in bed about writing Shoplifting Shoplifting from American Apparel from Urban Outfitters, a novella about Shoplifting from American Apparel written with an extreme focus on “being meta.
The Holidays
- Like politics? You’ll love Hanukkah.
The end of 2009.
- Top 10 archaeology finds of 2009
- Deck Fight picks their favorite albums.
The 90’s at the end of the aughts.
5 comments
I’m just happy to see that Elliott Bay will still be around the next time I’m in Seattle. Call a fella crazy.
also sarcastically appropriate: journalists at contact lens conference
…oh yeah, thanx for the link for the albums of the year
It was a good list, and gave us a reason to put the Nat. Geographic link also.
No mors Tao Lin!