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- Wind in the Willows at 100
- We regret the error—best news corrections of 2008
- Your CANYOUFUCKINGBELIEVEWESURVIVEDTHELASTEIGHTYEARSTOLIVEINTHESETIMES? news item of the day: Obama appointee quotes from Faulker…
- John Updike likes hot ebook pr0n
- Proust’s dirty letters up for sale
- JK Rowling takes a lot of abuse around here (which glances harmlessly off the billion dollar force field erected around her), but she does do good work for charity—I like rich people who aren’t just idly rich
- Some thoughts on John Banville as a white collar thug of supervillian proportions
- Ottawa library offers free ebooks to “armchair” borrowers
- John Betjeman: gay hero
- New Oz centre for writing and books to be headed by former Sydney Writers Festival director, who is not only apparently an awesome director, but, if photos don’t lie, is also WAY hotter than Meg Ryan
- Gadget time: allow me to coin some terms: the Screll Phone, the Notester, the Growlio (okay, that last one is stretching it… what about “the Growdex”? No. “The Leaflet”…? naw…)
- More on the melting book industry down south
- Your sickwithjealousy post of the day: a custom writing retreat (thanks, Roland, I think)… What I want to know is what the HELL is she writing that she can afford to have that studio designed and built by someone who employs a design philosophy? If my studio doesn’t come from the back lot at the Home Depot where they keep the chipboard sheds, I ain’t gettin’ one
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December 17th, 2008 at 9:35 am
My verdict: too much order, too much upkeep – an architect’s dream, not a writer’s. Can you write in a place that demands that not a hair be out of place?
December 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Well, we know I can’t. But I want the view and the lockable door.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I think “the client is a writer” was a slip of the tongue for “the client is the wife of an outrageously rich man, and she dabbles in writing while her husband is away juggling subprime mortgages in the city.”
December 17th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Who has that kind of empty bookshelf space? That’s just wrong. It’s a gluttony of space.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am
And what, really, would a writer’s forest retreat be without a 97-inch flat-screen plasma TV? No books on the shelves? Who cares? Check out that Israeli copper!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am
And what about the terrific, personal-trainer silhouette on the writer herself! A most interesting juxtaposition on George’s list too–right below the story about the big lay-offs at Macmillan in the US.
Mary
December 17th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Probably she writes bloodthirsty sermons for the local megachurch.