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April 26, 2008
Curiosities
- David Foster Wallace stranded on a desert island.
- Another reason to love Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley: his refreshingly enthusiastic take on "slacker fiction" and All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen, who, admittedly, "scarcely qualifies as a slacker."
- Paul Auster was a protesting, fence-tearing, rioting crazy '68er, too, it turns out.
- The phenomenal Burkhard Bilger supplements his New Yorker piece on folk-music field recordings with some audio.
- Malcolm Gladwell's seemingly endless string of public appearances continues. This one is, intriguingly, a public "book discussion" with the Washington, D.C. chief of police.
- With some speculating that CBS News is about to close up shop and that Katie Couric is on her way out, rumors are already swirling about the obligatory memoir.
- Jonathan Franzen answers the question "Do you regret your run-in with Oprah?" in a "Big Think" video. Aficionados of Franzen mannerisms may also enjoy the other fifteen or so Franzen videos that Big Think has available.
- C. Max Magee @ 10:29 AM ~
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