I love George Plimpton so much! Actually, I had a letter to the editor of Vanity Fair printed after an error in a profile of him a few years ago. And by "I had," I mean I wrote the letter and sent it over my boss's name.
'Safe'
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."
Allende's Paula is inextricably linked to riding on a bus through the Slovakian hinterlands. Even though it has no resemblance at all to the surroundings I was in.
Does everybody know about the Horror Masters site?
It's a huge archive of public domain horror, pulp and fantasy stories in a very readable .pdf format.
So if, for example, you get the urge to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" or "The Monkey's Paw" or even whole novels like Wm. Beckford's Vathek it's there for you. They've got 2,866 titles. Novels, short stories and poetry. Hawthorne, Machen, ETA Hoffman, Stoker, Shelley, Wilkie Collins... All on the dark side, all free.
That is hilarious!
Must send link to all friends.
Knut just posted this link on Facebook and it cracked me up:
I love it! (I just re-read the book the other week, too.)
That's very funny. But I don't get the icons--I'm guessing it's some Facebook thing?
Yeah, those are the icons Facebook uses.
Oh that's adorable, and I say that as a non-FB fan.
Forry Ackerman died. [link]