Jovencio makes lovely handbound journals on etsy. I may pick one up for my trip this month...

Fantastic article by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker.

Quoted: Why do we equate genius with precocity?

Kakutani remembers David Foster Wallace - fondly.

Quoted: David Foster Wallace’s strobe-lit portraits of millennial America were infused with humor and fervor and verve.

Quoted: A stash of explicit pornography to which Franz Kafka subscribed has emerged for the first time after being studiously ignored by scholars anxious to preserve the iconic writer's saintly image.

Colson Whitehead's short essay about what it's liek to be a writer in Brooklyn.

Quoted: Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

100 Best First Lines from Novels. A ton of great stuff here, including Thomas Pynchon at #3!

For fans of the TV show "Firefly," this is supposed to be a pretty great piece of fanfic.

Writer Michael Pollan has an adorable writing house. I'd like one of those!