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The world is losing its charm, and, in my opinion, Kindle is to blame. Technology has already provided extensive, charmless alternatives to books. There was TV; then digital TV so you could have a thousand bad to mediocre alternatives to reading; and TiVo so you’d never have to miss an alternative to reading; and of course, [...] Girl gone mild in Carlene Bauer’s Not That Kind of Girl: “If life maneuvers received scores for technical difficulty, Bauer would be competing for gold.” [via Daily Beast] Flash fiction at your fingertips: give it a whirl at NameYourTale.com. [via GalleyCat] For one month, from July 4 to August 4, access 2 [...] Done being beautified, a model did some preparation of another sort for her runway walk, at New York fashion week. –Allison Geller Photo: Jezebel It is somewhat astounding and certainly a blessing that we can count Bich Minh Nguyen (pronounced Bit Min New-win) among today’s authors when one considers her early life. When she was 1-year-old, her Vietnamese family fled Saigon on April 29, 1975, the night before it fell. Nguyen now teaches literature and creative writing at Purdue University, [...] Surely women’s magazines can come up with better reading material than the same article over and over and over again, right? Right? [via Jezebel] Katharine Donelson works her way through Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (aka Remembrance of Things Past), 50 pages at a time. [via Blog Critic] The Long List for [...] Literary Death Match in New York, N.Y. (July 30, 7:00 p.m.) – This event, held at the Bowery Poetry Club and Café, can’t be described better than it is on its own site: “Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match marries the literary [...] Singer, dancer, actress, activist, and now, woman of (dirty) letters—Madonna’s erotic letters and phone messages are now up for online auction. [via LimeLife] But when it comes to romance of the teen variety, Joe Jonas is the celebrity who takes the cake. His breakup with Camilla [...] The economy being what it is, now is perhaps the best time to check out the secret treasures held by used bookstores. The Guardian’s book blog has a recent article about some of these treasures, and their troublesome tendency to slip away if not immediately snatched up. [via Guardian UK] My hometown of Washington, D.C., boasts [...] British spy and art historian Anthony Blunt wrote a 30,000-word memoir during his time as a spy for the Soviet Union between sometime in the 1930s to the early 1950s. Last week, after keeping the memoir sealed in a steel container for twenty-five years, the British Library has made the document public, reports The New [...] Could the days of sitting on the beach with a heap of paperbacks and magazines be coming to a close? At least this way no one knows if you’re reading Nora Roberts or Nobokov. –Allison Geller |
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