Friday
Feb222008
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Friday 22 February, 2008 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw&rel=1] via Jody Porter
Friday 22 February, 2008 Thursday
Feb212008
Ralph Waldo Emerson's big mouth
Thursday 21 February, 2008 'We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.'
Thursday
Feb212008
Blue Bus Reading
Thursday 21 February, 2008 The Blue Bus will be back at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room, on Thursday 21st February, 7.30, with a reading by Linda Black, Sharon Morris and James Harvey. Future readings will include Lee Harwood, Robert Sheppard, Chris McCabe, Vahni Capildeo, Maurice Scully and Lou Rowan.
Thursday
Feb212008
SMS
Thursday 21 February, 2008 in Alex Davies 21/02/08 12:07am The rat, fearful of discovery, sheds a tear for undone plans. 20/02/08 4:23pm The land crab paints a heavy shadow on the face of the precipice and, moribund, admires his work, knowing his peers will never understand his vision. 19/02/08 6:14pm The kelp, aware only of its existential rage, blocks the sun over the raucous shrimp. 19/02/08 1:22pm The vole's only defence is spit and mustard. The rodent is possessed of iron will and steely determination, but is vanquished by his deadly foe.
Wednesday
Feb202008
'Those crazy sonsobitches! They'll never make it through the vortex!'
Wednesday 20 February, 2008 'Two competing visions of the future went head-to-head online yesterday as HarperCollins and Random House launched contrasting new experiments in book distribution on the same day. Building on a scheme launched in 2006 which allows users to flick through extracts of the books they publish, HarperCollins is releasing complete texts from a small selection of authors for periods of a month to test how free access affects sales.' Link
Wednesday
Feb202008
TALKSTALKSTALKS
Wednesday 20 February, 2008 This Wednesday: Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell will be talking about 'Cunning chapters' - their collaborative project at TALKS, Council Room 7.30.
Tuesday
Feb192008
Christian Bök on the post-avant
Tuesday 19 February, 2008 'I might even argue that, just as the prefix "neo-" (when grafted onto the name of an artistic movement) no longer means "novel," but "retro," so also does the prefix "post-" no longer imply an advancement beyond, or even an abandonment of, a past idea for a better future—instead, the prefix now signifies something like: "more of the same—only worse.…"' Link
Monday
Feb182008
Bad Sex Award 2007
Monday 18 February, 2008 'She had on no knickers, and my heart went crash-bang-wallop and my eyes popped out. She hadn't shaved, and her fanny looked like a tropical fish or a bit of old carpet.' Link
Sunday
Feb172008
Saturday
Feb162008
He's... a machine
Saturday 16 February, 2008 'Philip M. Parker, a professor at Insead, the international business school based in Fontainebleau, France, has written 85,000 books and counting. He's like a machine. In fact, he has a machine that writes them for him.' Link