Life Is One Never-Ending Conference Call, and Other News

From ConferenceCall.biz, a gif-art project by Zach Scott.

Who needs the titillations of Page Six and entertainment media when we have the fifteen hottest affairs in literature?
Who needs a soul deadening nine-to-five when we have the ten worst jobs in literature?
… And, for that matter, “a site that perfectly captures the existential despair of the conference call?”
Victor Hugo: poet, novelist, playwright, furniture designer.
At last, a map that lets you take that dystopian walking tour of Manhattan you’re always going on about.
On Goliardia Sapienza’s The Art of Joy, an erotic seven-hundred-page doorstop now available in English: “the novel reads less like a handbook on happiness than like a sadomasochistic Italian novelization of The Joy of Sex.”