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'Where Forgotton Books are Remembered'

anastasiav — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:13:26 -0800

The lively, compelling, rarely-updated Waggish

colinmarshall — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:43:12 -0800

Waggish would be one of the choicest blogs around if he updated more, but I suppose I can settle for what there is. If you've never read it, you'll know how good it is when I tell you about a few of the coolest posts: an inquest on "left-brained" literature, a short review of John Williams' Stoner, an appreciation of the great Shohei Imamura and three part coverage of the ultimate film, Béla Tarr's Sátántangó.

RIP, DFW

gerryblog — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:34:15 -0800

This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger. And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. Let's get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what "day in day out" really means. There happen to be whole, large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. The parents and older folks here will know all too well what I'm talking about. First reported by an anonymous tip to a blog, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed that David Foster Wallace has hung himself.

British Literature Blogs

Fizz — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:36:41 -0800

British Literature Blogs is the brainchild of six British literary bloggers. Each working hard at bringing readers to forgotten or overlooked books, our BritLitBloggers decided that combining their latest blog entries together in one place would highlight the breadth and depth of British literary blogging.

Literature Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny

NolanRyanHatesMatches — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:12:37 -0800

Those big, wonderful book blogs like Paper Cuts, Guardian Books, and Poetry Foundation haven't totally satisfied your book blog bloodlust? Well, maybe you could start with the lit blogs updated throughout the day, like Blog of a Bookslut, Conversational Reading, Quick Study, GalleyCat, The Millions, Bookninja, and The Elegant Variation. Perhaps you'd rather lit blogs that offer a more classically bloggy style? Old Hag, Maud Newton, ENotes, Pinky's Paperhaus, and After the MFA might be up your alley. And of course, there are a variety of blogs offering a smattering of lit talk: Silliman's Blog, BookFox, Literary Kicks, and Syntax of Things. "Pft, I'd rather just stay at home, ready my New Yorker, and count my short story rejection slips," you say? Well, there are even a few blogs for you, too!

They send you a book, you review it.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:58:13 -0800

Blog a Penguin Classic.

The Blooker Prize

liam — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:31:57 -0800

The 1st Blooker Prize, awarded to books based on blogs, goes to the Julie/Julia Project.

He said "valve".

kenko — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:31:09 -0800

The Valve, "a literary organ", is a new group blog devoted to literary studies and modelled on little magazines gone by.

Samuel Pepy's weblog

kirkaracha — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:30:27 -0800

Samuel Pepy's weblog. Starting on January 1, 2003, Phil Gyford will be running Samuel Pepy's diary entries (who's he?), starting with January 1, 1660. [via Interconnected]