Posts Tagged ‘Margaret Atwood’
From Fibreculture, Caroline McCaw on the art of Second Life and Axel Bruns looks at used based “produsage.”
Due to some monetary constraints I was unable to attend ELO 08, but Scott Rettberg posted his presentation over at Grand Text Auto. More on that soon.
Barrett Hathcock’s essay on the Internet from The Quarterly Conversation.
Catching up on fiction from The New Yorker: Bolano, Diaz, Eugenides, and a previously untranslated story by Nabokov.
Seamus Heaney’s 1985 review of Mr. Palomar from the New York Times.
Daniel Green’s review of the intriguing Lost Books Of The Odyssey.
The New Yorker had a big piece last week on Keith Olbermann.
Meanwhile, on Twitter…
The New Republic pays tribute to de Beauvoir.
Terra Nova covers a promising MMO called Lila Dreams.
Greg Palast on the preemptive theft of the 2008 election. Speaking of, maybe I should just sleep in anyway.
My new desktop background (Kind of big and exciting casting spoilers for the finale of Doctor Who)
Kristin Hersh has a new website.
And…
won a big literary award in Spain.
A member of the old New York hardcore band Ultra Violence gets a mention in The New Yorker too.
Read in 1995 and recently: The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood.
Read in 1996 and recently: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Hey, how about some weekend reading!
Joyce Carol Oates reviews the recent reissue of The Handmaid’s Tale over at The New York Review Of Books. There is also some lovely discussions of Margaret Atwood’s other books including Surfacing.
Elizabeth L. Rambo writes about Cordelia for Slayage twenty three.
Edwidge Danticat has a new story in a recent issue of The New Yorker.
Via The Little Professor, Ohio State has digitized some of their out of print books. I am interested in the texts about Shakespeare and Mildred Newcomb’s The Imagined World Of Charles Dickens because I am reading Oliver Twist this weekend for a class.
Bookslut interviews Robert D. Richardson, author of .
Wil Wheaton reviews another Next Generation episode-this time it is the pilot, Encounter At Farpoint, that gets the honor.
Margaret Atwood discusses The Penelopiad with The Guardian.
Metafilter discusses, with many useful links, Jorge Luis Borges.
The new issue of Reconstruction is about blogging.
Second book read this year-The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.
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