Honne, The Spirit Of The Chehalis: The Indian Interpretation Of The Origin Of The People And Animals (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)
we will all go simultaneous (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
A few videos came on HTMLGIANT recently and I liked them a lot and: I don't remember why I was reading this but it made me wonder how many fœtuses have Wikipedia pages... NaNoWriMo is coming to a close. Here is my contribution. It is NaNoWriMi: A man likes to have sex and he wants to have lots of sex but he is married and he doesn't know if he likes to have sex with his wife as much as he likes...
ENCYCLOPEDIA HANASIANA (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
On September 19, 2003, my wife and I went on your first date. It was a marathon. In what will probably sound like a parody of New York dating circa 2003 twenty years from now, we went to see George Saunders read at The New Yorker Festival, then saw Lost in Translation . Somewhere in there we ate at a diner and drank bubble tea. But it didn't go well. Let me clarify: I thought it went fine. I went...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A while back, as a nice gesture, a publishing pal gave me George Saunders' (at the time) new book, The Braindead Megaphone. Exciting: here in...
Joshuah Bearman (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A while back, as a nice gesture, my pal Sean McDonald gave me George Saunders' (at the time) new book, The Braindead Megaphone. It was in galley, since Sean edited it. I was excited. Here in my hands, was one...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've written about this before , but it's getting very close now: The 33rd issue of McSweeney's is going to take the form of a Sunday newspaper titled The San Francisco Panorama : It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides)...
The Mark on the Wall (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
George Saunders recounts the day ten years ago when Quarterly West accepted a story. excerpt: There is maybe nothing harder or more thankless than being an aspiring writer, unless it is being an aspiring writer who is having trouble holding down the job at which he or she has to thanklessly toil in order to preserve those precious hours during which he or she is eking out the stories that no one in...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Audio, manuscripts, and photos from Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror" are now available online at PEN.org. Listen to Don DeLillo, A.M. Homes, George Saunders, and others read from recently disclosed documents, legal memorandums, and first-hand accounts of government abuse.
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Martin Schneider writes: I have a friend who generally misses out on the first rush of New Yorker Festival ticket-buying and then finds himself disinclined to purchase tickets to the more readily available Friday author events because "why pay when you can see them at Barnes and Noble for free?" A fair point, for which there are sound responses, the main one being that not everyone who attends...
kottke (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Here's what everyone has been most interested in on kottke.org this week: The best flag in the world (#1 by a wide margin) From sketch to photo instantly (this is insanely awesome) Bullets are slow The Rape Tunnel: FAKE The most beautiful suicide Beyonce's Single Ladies covered by Pomplamoose Cool cats Carl Sagan Auto-Tune (feat. Stephen Hawking) Parkour on a bicycle From the desk of Mr. Jagger Inventing...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Jonathan Taylor writes: I don't read New Yorker fiction much. I don't bring up a New Yorker story and say, Did you read....? I did both with George Saunders's "Victory Lap." And then the person I say it to, who also doesn't talk to me about New Yorker fiction, suddenly exhibits that she's been thinking about it ever since reading it. Emily compares it, smartly, to Lorrie Moore's 1997 story...
The Sound of Young America (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
There's a very popular podcast out there called Dan Carlin's Hardcore History . Though your Podthinker hasn't heard it, he's totally unable to stop hearing about it on every recommended podcast list, in every discussion of podcasts, from so many enthusiastic podcast listeners. While your Podthinker has nothing against historical shows and all that is hardcore, he has gotten the feeling that, where...
kottke (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Cool cats orig. from Oct 07, 2009 George Saunders plays house(less) orig. from Oct 08, 2009 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
ACLU Bog of Rights (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Next Tuesday, writers and artists including Eve Ensler, Don Delillo, Jonathan Ames, George Saunders, Ishmael Beah and Art Spiegelman will join the ACLU and PEN American Center to bring attention to acts of torture and abuse carried out by the U.S. since 9/11. Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror” will [...]
Matt Bell (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
We are in receipt of your letter of the other day, that other day, whenever that day was, when you sent that letter that you sent us. We regret to inform you that, although we are very sympathetic to your significant hardships, don't you think it would be better if you took responsibility for your own life? We feel strongly that, once you rid your goats of gappers, as we have, you will feel better...
Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Waiting for Vu in Ann Arbor with the South Lyon blues again. * The end of fish. Via MeFi . * I must be getting old— it's the second day in a row I've agreed with a conservative on the Supreme Court. And this time it was Antonin Scalia! "The cross doesn't honor non-Christians who fought in the war?" Scalia asks, stunned. "A cross is the predominant symbol of Christianity, and it...
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