September 22, 2006
Weekend reading: Around the web #21
- An essay by Jonathan Safran Foer that describes his "Empty Page Project." (via Conversational Reading)
- An interview, in the California Literary Review with Richard Lanham, author of The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information (via The Reading Experience)
- Waggish on the ecumenicality of the TLS (also via The Reading Experience)
- Toni Schlesinger, celebrated in the August issue of The Believer by Jenny Davidson (the only person who reads and links to more literary-review essays than me), popped up in this week's Observer with a small feature on Sarah Morris.
- I'm more than a week late on this one, but if you haven't read Caleb Crain's piece about Mass Observation in the September 11 issue of the New Yorker, I recommend it. Crain posted additional information to his blog. Grayson Perry's September 13 Times column coincidentally touched on Humphrey Jennings, one of the Mass Observation protagonists.
- Mark Thwaite offers a note about Gabriel Josipovici's Everything Passes, a brief (fifty-eight page) novella out from Carcanet in the US on October 28.
- Streetsblog alerted me yesterday to the presence of an "International Park(ing) Day" intervention in New York, and so I trekked over from the office at lunchtime and enjoyed the sunshine. Here's the proof.
- An interview with Julio Cortazar, conducted in 1973
Lastly, I've recently added a number of sites to the blogroll in the right-hand column, including ArtFagCity; photographer Alec Soth's blog; Diacritical, ArtsJournal founder Doug McLennan's new blog; the History News Network's Cliopatria blog; and Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise. All are worth perusing.
Have a good weekend.