I read a lot of blogs and other “things” on the internets, but as it turns out most of that reading is not book-related. Lately, because I have so much spare time (right), I’ve been trying to visit more of the litweb, and maybe to be a tiny bit more involved. To that end, I may be posting some Saturday Links installments of things that strike me in my travels. Don’t be upset if it’s not all fresh.
- “And the most conservative American novelist of all time, then, would have to be Nabokov.” (A Commonplace Blog)
- “A huge part of the grand hope in the Apple ‘magical’ (how many times did this come up in the Apple presentation? Like a million? And since when is technology magical? What kind of paradoxical shit is that?) is that suddenly, thanks to the vision of Steve Jobs and the genius of Apple designers, an audience will be created that suddenly craves books. This is some god-like shit going down.” (Three Percent)
- “Sturdily middle-class, troubled but not too deeply, suburban but urban as well, waspily making the rounds of the cocktail parties—when people talk about the typical New Yorker story, they may in fact be indulging a fantasy about the typical New Yorker reader.” (Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes)
- “Some of the most intriguing book lists” selected by the Seminary Coop. I want “Ordinariness: an introduction.” And all of them. (The Front Table)
- “When a book goes wrong, what matters is aesthetics.” (Incurable Logophilia)
- “Who knows what the rules are in The City of Dreadful Night.” (Wuthering Expectations)
- Plus lots more To the Lighthouse goodness. (Evening All Afternoon)
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