…An eternal poem etched on the roads of a town, a novelist who took a 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail and lived to tell the tale, an NPR word nerdy piece that references my favorite book as a child…

Lawn gnomes are so 2011. The miniature library is coming to a lawn near you…

I’ve saved up so many links this week to share with you – I am not sure where to start. How about another list-y style post?   Two Bookish Videos: 1. Come on All You Ghosts Matthew Zapruder reads poetry selections at LitQuake in San Francisco. 2. The identity of The Rumpus’ own Sugar of “Dear [...]

  We like to watch for memes. Here’s a recent one (and a funny one!)… FUCK YOUR NOGUCHI COFFEE TABLE   Also, a thoughtful piece on the term “e-book” (is it the “horseless carriage” of our times?)…   Technology Time Lines by David Wilk of Booktrix   E-books are to books what horseless carriages are [...]

Here are a few goodies from our friends in book related cyberlandia – The following “Publishing Talk” introduces us to John Sundman, a free thinking visionary blogging at Wetmachine, a blog that self-describes as covering such diverse brainiac topics as “software praxis, technoparanoia, the craft of writing, self-publishing, politics, and random bullshit….” –   Publishing [...]

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Literary Round Up

December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Here is something I’ve had on my list to share with you for a while – better late than never. Enjoy this transcript of a brilliant speech by the late David Foster Wallace. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS IN MEMORIAM The world of letters has lost a giant. We have felt nourished by [...]

Parents tend to choose old fashioned paper books over e-books for their children…

  We’ve all seen how literature is a tool of protest and revolution: Publishing your views sure beats throwing molotov cocktails, and it also seems to be much more effective. We’ve blogged on this in the past, here. (I am looking forward to the first books about the Occupy Wall Street movement.)   In this vein, friends [...]

Tomas Tranströmer has won the Noble Prize in Literature. Here‘s a bit about it from the LA Times: Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, in translation Poet Tomas Tranströmer is well known in Sweden, but here in the U.S. he hasn’t become the household name of, say, your average Kardashian. Winning the Nobel Prize in literature [...]

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