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08/30/08 // Link:
Wikipedia on the Roma, aka Gypsies Some of the book I’m working on involves gypsies and this Wikipedia page is a surprisingly good overview of the books I’ve been reading on the subject.continue reading »
03/28/08 // Link:
Six-Word Travel Memoirs Condense your entire thoughts on a life of travel into six words… a writer’s nightmare, an editor’s dream. My personal favorite: All my stuff is in storage.continue reading »
02/12/08 // Link:
Ralf Potts on the Banality That is ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Travel writer Rolf Potts has a excellent and brutal piece skewering Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling travel book, Eat, Pray, Love which a friend of mine described as “the most nauseating, narcissistic, bucket of crap I’ve ever suffered though.” And not that …continue reading »
01/05/08 // Link:
Woolgathering… My friend Lee just started blogging. If you’re looking for “well-fed white guy stuff” (his words not mine, but come to think of it that’s basically what you’re getting here too so you must like it) check out Woolgathering, looks …continue reading »
12/23/07 // Link:
Bookworm Interview with David Foster Wallace (‘96) continue reading »
12/06/07 // Link:
Coast To A Writing Career Hilarious bit from my former Wired editor Paul Boutin. Sarcastic and tongue in cheek as this may be, there’s an element of truth in it and somewhat mirrors my own career. Hey Paul, wanna give me the hookup at the …continue reading »
10/10/07 // Link:
Death of an Adventure Traveler A great little ruminative essay from Rolf Potts (of Vagabonding.net fame) about a burmese refuge, travel writing and a good bit more. I’d never heard of this site before, but it’s actually quite good, I might have to submit something …continue reading »
09/08/07 // Link:
NPR : Problems Surface at ‘Net Phone Service Skype My debut on NPR, in which I learn that radio does not interest me, which is good because I suck at it. When the Internet phone service Skype went down recently, millions of its customers lost contact with the world. …continue reading »
08/03/07 // Link:
David Foster Wallace Parodies Contest The Howling Fantods, a David Foster Wallace fansite recently held a DFW parody contest with some truly great entries. You can check out the finalists by following the above link, but here’s an exceprt from the winner, entitled “RE: The …continue reading »
07/31/07 // Link:
Peanuts by Charles Bukowski Dead-on and Hilarious.continue reading »
06/05/07 // Link:
A hermit’s 15,000 Page Work of Beauty A nice look at Henry Darger, from Mental Floss: “Perhaps the most prolific artist of our time, Henry Darger’s strange genius wasn’t discovered until after his death. He was a lonely and highly reclusive man who worked for years as …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
Thinking of Something to Say: Topoi While I’ve never seen these formalized like these, I definitely spend a lot of time working through questions like this when I write stuff for luxagraf, and to a lesser degree, Wired. A handy cheat sheet for those looking to …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:
The Book Inscriptions Project The book inscriptions project collects personal messages written inside books. From the about page: “Pictures count. So do poems. So do notes on paper found in a book. The more heartfelt the better. Send a copy of the cover and …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
Beware Mob Media Ephraim Schwartz on “citizen journalism.” “Let me offer a very cynical point of view: Citizen journalism is a form of fascism waiting to happen. Now I know fascism requires the centralization of power, and that would appear to be the …continue reading »
02/22/07 // Link:
Jean-Paul Sartre, 911 Operator. The best thing I’ve seen on McSweeney’s in some time. What happened to that magazine, it used to be so good?continue reading »