September 18, 2004
Around the web in eighty minutes
- "Urban and Urbane: The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s" (Link via The Morning News.)
- The Center for Land Use Interpretation, which I visited in July, has posted the contents of its Summer 2004 newsletter, "The Lay of the Land," online. For those who haven't heard of the organization, here is an excerpt from its mission statement: "The CLUI is a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface. The Center embraces a multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling the stated mission, employing conventional research and information processing methodology as well as nontraditional interpretive tools."
- Mark Thwaite of ReadySteadyBlog shares news of a new W.G. Sebald title, out last month from Hamish Hamilton. It is a collection of poems accompanied by lithographs the late author traded with German artist Jan Peter Tripp. Apparently yet another Sebald title is forthcoming in February 2005. Given his postmortem productivity, I assume he must be in the same section of heaven as Tupac. (Not that I mind.) Thwaite also points me toward Paul Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting, which is now near the top of my "to find soon" list.