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« Previous EntriesSalinger & Innocence
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I felt the urge to read Salinger last week. I ran through Nine Stories and got through “Franny” in Franny and Zooey. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter is next.
Salinger gets a bad rap as being kid’s [...]
Jack Kerouac
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008I love this stuff.
The Orwell Diaries
Monday, August 11th, 2008Here’s a good one for your feed reader: The Orwell Diaries. It’s the diary of George Orwell, posted on the same day he wrote each entry…just 70 years later.
From the opening entry, posted by the Orwell Prize people (whoever they are):
From 9th August 2008, you will be able to gather your own impression [...]
Great Book Lists
Friday, July 11th, 2008There are more “Great Books” lists than there are living people, I suspect. Some are pretty good as they capture a list of books that would appear on the lists of many people.
Then there’s this list from the Art of Manliness website.
There are three four books about Theodore Roosevelt on the list. There [...]
Brilliant
Friday, April 6th, 2007Today on Seth Godin’s blog, he dropped a link to a site that I must say is an example of brilliant marketing.
Click past the first page or two. It’s about a book, not about making a website. Trust me.
No One Belongs Here More Than You