Bill Cheng's Blog, page 112
April 4, 2013
April 3, 2013
The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!
The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge.
Robert Darnton tells you how and why.
stylingonlife:
bycheng:
Look what showed up this...
Look what showed up this morning.
(Available May 7th)
It’s crazy that I know so little about you, but I’m going to buy your book just because you follow me back on tumblr.
What’s to know? I drink coffee, take Advil in small packets, and keep a cluttered desk!
Look what showed up this morning.
(Available May 7th)
Look what showed up this morning.
(Available May 7th)
April 2, 2013
Brand new 90outloud, this time from my friend Carmie Banasky,...
Brand new 90outloud, this time from my friend Carmie Banasky, this time from DFW’s Good Old Neon.
From David Foster Wallace’s short story, Good Old Neon, read by Carmiel Banasky
The collection Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace is published by Little Brown and Company. You can find Oblivion: Stories at most major booksellers.
And don’t forget to keep up with Carmiel at carmielbanasky.com
penamerican:
‘He Had No Set Assignments’: Students’...
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‘He Had No Set Assignments’: Students’ Recollections of Authors as Professors
This week, The New York Review of Books published a wonderful essay from a former student of Vladimir Nabokov, a juicy read for anyone who wishes that they could have taken one of the genius writer’s classes. Inspired, I hunted around for more first-person recollections of classes taken with famous writers—whether they were famous at the time or only later on. Read through a few of the ones I found, and add your own memories (if you’re lucky enough to have them) in the comments.
So I prefer: Write what you can learn about. Alternately: Write...
So I prefer: Write what you can learn about. Alternately: Write what interests you. Because it interests you for a reason, and that reason probably has to do with the rough stuff of your inner life. Put differently, writing about things you don’t know seems a useful, albeit sneaky, gateway to material you cannot access otherwise. This is especially true of people who resist confrontation with their darker selves. I submit that I am one of those people, which is probably why my latest novel is about cults and cloud seeding, spies and disguise, the Department of the Interior and, in some measure, North Korea, which was not only unknown to me but in many ways unknowable.
robcam-wfu:
David Tennant
reading William Shakespeare’s
Sonnet...
David Tennant
reading William Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 18: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’
