News Around the Net
The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to a Swedish poet who is, again, decidedly not Philip Roth.
The eastern hemisphere is none too happy about the choice either. Rightly so, it seems the Nobel has become a European only party with a splash of South America now and then.
Check out this slideshow of Simpsons literary references. Pretty comprehensive, but they left off my favorite.
The National Book Foundation has announced their 5 under 35 for this year. I didn't make it this year, but I still have 11 years to get there. Also, I have to write something. Wish me luck.
The future! This seems sufficiently lazy to me. Now I won't have to decide which books to read, and I don't have to get off my couch to read them.
Here's a small tour of Lovecraftian locales around New England, apparently the creepiest place on Earth.
For fear of sounding like a total dick, congrats to Tomas Transtromer for being awarded the Nobel Prize, he's had a great career.
The eastern hemisphere is none too happy about the choice either. Rightly so, it seems the Nobel has become a European only party with a splash of South America now and then.
Check out this slideshow of Simpsons literary references. Pretty comprehensive, but they left off my favorite.
The National Book Foundation has announced their 5 under 35 for this year. I didn't make it this year, but I still have 11 years to get there. Also, I have to write something. Wish me luck.
The future! This seems sufficiently lazy to me. Now I won't have to decide which books to read, and I don't have to get off my couch to read them.
Here's a small tour of Lovecraftian locales around New England, apparently the creepiest place on Earth.
For fear of sounding like a total dick, congrats to Tomas Transtromer for being awarded the Nobel Prize, he's had a great career.