we will all go simultaneous (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Dare to Die by Carolyn...
ArtsBeat (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Irish-born novelist Colum McCann, who dazzled attendees of the 2009 North American James Joyce Conference in Buffalo this past June at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Hyatt Regency Hotel with readings from his soon-to-be released novel Let the Great World Spin (Random House) was one of the big winners Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Benefit Dinner...
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
1919 Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, the first combination English-language book shop and lending library in Paris. Beach befriended many of the world's writers, particularly in the 1920s and '30s, when her shop was a gathering place for expatriate writers and French authors pursuing new found interest in US literature. She also published the first edition of James Joyce 's Ulysses . The...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This Spiegel International interview, "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die" , with Umberto Eco, manages to introduce the idea of the humble list as a basic organizing structure of civilization. Which it is. SPIEGEL: Mr. Eco, you are considered one of the world's great scholars, and now you are opening an exhibition at the Louvre, one of the world's most important museums. The subjects...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Every week we'll post about what books we have received that week (via your mailbox/library/store bought)! Created by The Story Siren ! For Review (4) Life After 187 by Wade J. Halverson The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (blog tour) What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls by Richard M. Dudum 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster Library (5) The Red Badge of Courage by...
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
At Jezebel , Anna North considers a good question: is it time to stop the Top Book Lists, such as the recent Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009? As has been noticed in such outlets as The New York Times , there is not a single female author on the list, raising questions about long-held critical biases against women's fiction. Of course, it's possible that the top books of the year were without...
Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
This month Wendy supplied us with a list of first lines and asks which books we’ve read and which would make it to our tbr list on the basis of the first line. Bold = the books I’ve read Pink = tbr pile 1. Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride...
airform archives (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
a few weeks ago, i posted the artwork for a frank lloyd wright bubble gum card that was part of a set of famous americans from the early 1960's. a few days ago i remembered another bubble gum card anomaly... this 1934 "sky birds" bubble gum card of gabriel d'annunzio, pictured as a famous aviator, but on the back also referred to as the "poet flyer". to the best of my knowledge,...
Perpetual Folly (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The linkages in James Joyce’s Dubliners are a bit harder to see than those of some of the modern linked story collections or even its near-contemporary, Winesburg, Ohio. Instead of continuing or overlapping characters, the primary connector in this book is thematic. The setting also brings these stories together—mostly they provide glimpses into working class Dublin—but the real link...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
As I step onto the train platform at Suburban Station in Philadelphia, an infinite ocean of people, shops, sounds and smells fly at me in a continuous stream of consciousness. I feel like James Joyce or J.P. Donleavy.
Issa's Untidy Hut (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
This past week was the birthday of rock great, Grace Slick , from one of my favorite 60's bands, Jefferson Airplane (a choice for which I took much flack from close friends). This week's selection is "White Rabbit," which is the second Grace Slick number to land on the Litrock list (here's the first , in case you missed it). Whether it's James Joyce or Lewis Carroll , Slick was always on...
Peter's Paris (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
This is a try to follow the trace of Ernest Hemingway in Paris . Ernest made a short visit to Paris during WWI, but he really arrived here in December 1921, together with his then wife, Hadley, as a reporter for "Toronto Star", but with the ambition to become a real author. They stayed for a short while at "Hôtel d'Angleterre", 44 rue Jacob ... ... and immediately discovered...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Colm Tóibín A scene from ‘No Worst There Is None’ at the Dublin Theater Festival One of the strangest and most beautiful shows in the Dublin Theatre Festival, which ran during the first week of October, was entitled “ No Worst There Is None ” and concerned the life of the English poet and Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins . It was performed for an audience of twenty-five...
2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Edward Craig, back in Michigan after bravely braving San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and living to report his findings here, now unearths for us a surprising nugget of ... well, let him report: * * * * * Michael Blowhard often lamented on this site about the lack of appreciation for the writing skills of popular novelists. These novelists often share...
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acanite4rf1 | 08/14/2009
Download Lost in Translation in DVD, DivX, PDA quality! Genres: Comedy | Drama Countries: Japan | USA Actors: Johansson, Scarlett Charlotte Murray, Bill Bob Harris Takeshita, Akiko Ms. Kawasaki Minamimagoe, Kazuyoshi Press Agent Shibata, Kazuko Press Agent Take Press Agent Baba, Ryuichiro Concierge Yamaguchi, Akira Bellboy Lambert, Catherine Jazz Singer du Bois, François Sausalito Piano Leffman, Tim...
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