July 2010
25 posts
Maps of Literary Classics →
(via libraryland)
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ARL Policy Notes: The Librarian of Congress Pops... →
Photo CC BY rebopper
Yesterday the Librarian of Congress announced six classes of works that would be exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) prohibition on breaking digital locks (DRM). The new rules are pretty exciting for higher education folks, as they include a…
Mark Twain today: The voice in the iconic author’s... →
This is not your grandfather’s Samuel Clemens.
[Article @ Houston Chronicle]
[image via HeyOscarWilde.com]
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Friedrich Schiller & David Foster Wallace →
[via Lapham’s Quarterly]
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Wylie's Amazon deal brings the end of the...
“Publishers came face to face with their own vision of apocalypse yesterday, as Andrew Wylie announced that he and his authors would be cutting publishing houses out of the future and teaming up with Amazon to sell their own electronic editions.
Grinning down from the saddle beside him in the first wave of horsemen is a fearsome collection of riders, including Philip Roth, Salman...
Postmadern Men
newyorker:
A Modern “Mad Men”:
A meeting at the offices of SterlingCooperMizuho.
DON DRAPER: As you all know, we’ve been commissioned by D1SKOUNT Rx Meds!!! to come up with their new spam mail. This is major; if you’re low on Adderall, now’s the time to refill.
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Yes, yes… SAGATROPE is yet another blog on this Mad Men premiere kick, but this New Yorker post is being...
Interview: Design Guru Paul Buckley of Penguin... →
In a world where we have no choice but to judge books by their covers, it’s nice to know this guy has good taste.
Bret Easton Ellis on David Foster Wallace →
Question: David Foster Wallace – as an American writer, what is your opinion now that he has died?
Answer: Is it too soon? It’s too soon right? Well i don’t rate him. The journalism is pedestrian, the stories scattered and full of that Mid-Western faux-sentimentality and Infinite Jest is unreadable. His life story and his battle with depression however is really quite touching…
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The Howling Fantods! - Biographer Requests Letters →
Looks like there is an epic biography on the way.
Google Earth Goes Literary →
Google puts $1m into academic research projects for digitized books
Which Dystopian Future Is Right For You? →
A test worth taking.
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Aqua Books: 10 Best/Worst Thriller Books-to-Films →
Author Lorenzo Carcaterra’s (Sleepers) list of 10 best thriller films made from books, the 10 worst, and the 10 he most wants to see get made. (more here)
The 10 Best: The Bourne Trilogy, Silence of the Lambs, Day of the Jackal, 3 Days of the Condor, The Manchurian Candidate, The Talented…
A List of the Most Frequently Stolen Books →
projectgutenberg:
In the wood all was utterly inert and motionless, only great drops fell from the bare boughs, with a hollow little crash. For the rest, among the old trees was depth within depth of grey, hopeless inertia, silence, nothingness.
- D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) [full text]
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