I had JUST remembered The Songlines!
Clearly, whenever this topic is chosen, this will have to be my pick. But I have a feeling that "Food and Drink" will win out first.
I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
megan walker - Jun 17, 2011 5:21:17 am PDT #15361 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Calli - Jun 17, 2011 5:23:08 am PDT #15362 of 28289
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
She just put up the entry for the Madhura.
Hee. Cryptids are the new moons, apparently.
Strega - Jun 17, 2011 11:37:41 am PDT #15363 of 28289
Hitchens reviews Mamet's new book, then picks his teeth with the bones. [link]
I particularly admire the craftmanship here:
Mr. Beck is among those thanked in Mamet’s acknowledgments for helping free him from "the bemused and sad paternalism" of the liberal airwaves. Would that this were the only sign of the deep confusion that is all that alleviates Mamet’s commitment to the one-dimensional or the flat-out partisan.
Toddson - Jun 17, 2011 12:17:40 pm PDT #15364 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
snerk ... I ran across this gem.
sumi - Jun 17, 2011 4:45:00 pm PDT #15365 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
Inn at the Crossroads - a blog with recipes from A Song of Ice and Fire.
DavidS - Jun 18, 2011 6:22:12 am PDT #15366 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Guardian asked authors to write about their most vividly remembered holiday read.
They're all pretty great though I particularly like AS Byatt and Antonia Fraser's contributions. Fascinating to see the mix of memory, reading and landscape come together.
Jesse - Jun 19, 2011 4:42:58 am PDT #15367 of 28289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anyone who is at all interested in especially 80s Hollywood gossip has got to read Rob Lowe's autobiography. It's great! It really is all these great stories (some of which are really unbelievable), with not a ton of introspection, but that seems like the way he is, basically -- he kind of goes along and looks on the bright side and that kind of thing.
sj - Jun 20, 2011 10:46:29 am PDT #15368 of 28289
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Neil Gaiman linked to a blog with posts about weird things customers say in a bookstore. It's hysterical. link
Ginger - Jun 20, 2011 5:50:14 pm PDT #15369 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History [link]
Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound: “A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”
Vladimir Nabokov on Ernest Hemingway: “As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”
Liese S. - Jun 20, 2011 5:50:59 pm PDT #15370 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
bells, balls and bulls
Hahahah that's so great.