- Still working on the next batch of Segundo shows. Bear with me.
- Boyd Tonkin tears Nick Hornby a new one. (via Rake)
- Hey, Kottke, ever heard of the printer-friendly page button? Cry me a solipsistic river. Do you want Remnick to give you an extra pillow to prop your feet up as well?
- Martin Scorsese’s Sesame Streets.
- Ducktor Who (via Quiddity)
- Abigail Nussbaum offers a dissenting view on BSG.
- Brian McCluskey offers an early review of Richard Ford’s Lay of the Land. (via TEV)
- German sociologist Wolf Lepenies has received the top prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
- Publishers Weekly serves up a report for this year’s NCIBA.
- The Washington Post examines The Paris Review under Gourevitch’s reign.
- Now bookmarked: The Burgess Project. (via Books Inq.)
- Also bookmarked: Book Trailer Park, devoted to literary-based video. (via Chekhov’s Mistress)
- Alan Moore’s Lost Girls is a hit in Iowa.
- Like Jeff, the book space in my own apartment is rapidly depleting. The last thing I want to do is give up the walls that have been designated DO NOT PUT BOOKS HERE. But on Saturday, I improvised a crabwalk from the post office to my apartment carrying around fifty books. While this is all good exercise, I reveal this to illustrate just how crazed the fall publishing season is. Could it be, however, that libraries abhor a vacuum?
- The Evil Monkey has declared his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
I can’t believe that duck. My wife would kill me. Or the duck would electrocute me, my body making the wheezing grinding TARDIS sound.
I thought BSG was referring to Black Swan Green.
Oh no, I loved Black Swan Green.
But it’s funny that you thought that, because for a while this spring the acronym kept showing up in reference to Mitchell’s novel and I kept thinking it meant Battlestar Galactica.