February 2011
January 2011
Suggested edits for "The Problem With Memoirs" in...
davidquigg:
A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
There was a time when you had to earn the right to draft a memoir, by accomplishing something noteworthy or having an extremely unusual experience or being such a brilliant writer that you could turn relatively ordinary occurrences into a snapshot of a broader historical moment. Anyone who didn’t fit one of those...
Happy b’day to one of Santa Fe’s coolest residents. Good novelist too. “@ebertchicago: Gene Hackman’s birthday. http://bit.ly/bwTXQN”
‘I am wonderful to talk to. I’m a consummate professional. People leave my...
– - David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
I’m re-reading Infinite Jest, concurrent with more books than really makes sense, after listening to the 1996 KCRW interview with Wallace that I mentioned here a few days ago. Many things from the interview are worth thinking about and blogging about, but the...
RT @sharifkouddous: Omar Suleiman ran #Egypt’s US-backed torture program. He is unacceptable. #Jan25
RT @sharifkouddous: My story on the Revolution in #Egypt now on @thenation: http://bit.ly/dSwVbM #Jan25
RT @wax_fm: Record Store Spotlight: Origami Vinyl (the Vinyl District) http://bit.ly/e7uEAg
Neil Genzlinger’s misrepresentations and sneering about Allen Shawn’s “Twin” in his #nytimes review are breathtaking. http://j.mp/frmEaa
RT @bencnn: Saw boys with massive seal of the republic looted from State TV. If this isn’t the end, it certainly looks and smells like i …
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mubarak? - NYTimes.com “Whose bright idea was it to send Joe Biden out to talk about Egypt?”
RT @kanyewest: NO ALCOHOL BEFORE TATTOOS
Gorgeous “@jfleck: RT @NatGeoSociety: Photo of the Day: Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico http://on.natgeo.com/glpREu”
Cool “@LibraryAmerica: RT @stevesilberman Nabokov’s butterfly theory is vindicated. http://nyti.ms/e1dg4w ”