February 2010
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January 2010
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Secret J.D. Salinger Documentary & Book, Now... →
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Judging by the J.D. Salinger obituaries and tributes, there is just as much interest in the Catcher in the Rye author after his death as there was during his life when he shunned the spotlight for reclusion in Cornish, New Hampshire. Now I can report that Shane Salerno, a 37-year-old screenwriter who’s currently writing Fantastic Voyage for Fox and James Cameron, has directed...
Walking in Holden's Footsteps - Interactive Map →
Trace Holden Caulfield’s perambulations around Manhattan in “The Catcher in the Rye” to places like the Edmont Hotel, where Holden had an awkward encounter with Sunny the hooker; the lake in Central Park, where he wondered about the ducks in winter; and the clock at the Biltmore, where he waited for his date. Roll your mouse over each point and read about Holden’s...
J.D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye,'... →
J.D. Salinger, 91, a celebrated author and enigmatic recluse whose 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye” became an enduring anthem of adolescent angst and youthful rebellion and a classic of 20th-century American literature, has died at his home in Cornish, N.H.
“My donkey. That’s MY donkey. Get off my donkey! You know, you’re not...”
– Sleep Talkin’ Man
Amazon and Others Slam Revised Google Books Deal →
Critics who blasted the first Google Books settlement have begun weighing in with objections to the modified agreement, which Google and authors sealed late last year to allay concerns that the first pact would give Google a monopoly in digital books.
The Millions: Confessions of a Book Pirate →
He lives in the Midwest, he’s in his mid-30s and is a computer programmer by trade. By some measures, he’s the publishing industry’s ideal customer, an avid reader who buys dozens of books a year and enthusiastically recommends his favorites to friends. But he’s also uploaded hundreds of books to file sharing sites and he’s downloaded thousands. We discussed his file sharing activity over the...
WatchTop 10 Tools for Better Reading, Online and Off - Reading - Lifehacker
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a...”
– Oscar Wilde (via turningtomyverses)
"Memorize Now" Helps You Commit Long Passages to... →
Memorize Now allows you enter text and then use a variety of devices to help you commit it to memory. You can read the text as is, reduce it to reminder letters—filling in the additional letters to complete the words as necessary to help you remember the passage—and display the passages you’ve entered in a flashcard style system. Memorizing long passages is never easy but Memorize Now...
Zemanta Wants to be Your Best Writing Friend -... →
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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“Nobody can fully understand or explain the relationship between reading and...”
– Memories from books: they come when they want to
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“back-of-the-mouth vowels like the “o” in “two” make people think of large sizes,...”
– Drilling Down - Vowel Sounds Influence Consumers’ Perception of Prices - NYTimes.com (via cmoney)
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WatchSex Worker Literati: Stories of Dirt, Danger, and Debauchery
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“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex. (via quicklyslowly)
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“Is there a verb for making your own echos? It seems like there should be a verb...”
– Dromiceiomimus, Dinosaur Comics (via dubiousmerchant)
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The Atlantic Online | Classic Reviews →
The Atlantic has a special archive of its classic reviews. It’s hard to believe that they have been around for over a hundred and fifty years. Original reviews include the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Victor Hugo.
“All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors.
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– William Blake
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“In life that is truly life, everything overlaps and merges…Only when the past...”
– John Dewey, from Art as Experience (via silhouettes) (via hannahjarvie)
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'A Literary Bible - An Original Translation,' by... →
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What if... William Shakespeare wrote The Big... →
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This is so impressive.
“Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you...”
– Iain Banks, Transition (via maybeandroid)
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“What new species of books, then, have proved themselves fit to survive in the...”
– The Noughtie List highlights, pt 4