eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2009 | writing, community, blogs
A great "how to blog" series with Merlin Mann.
Quoted: A surprising and irreverent look at tech, trends, and fresh ideas.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 12 2008 | Jonathan Lethem, writing, free, fiction
Jonathan Lethem has a piece of short fiction in The New Yorker.
Quoted: The New Yorker
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 03 2008 | journal, writing
Jovencio makes lovely handbound journals on etsy. I may pick one up for my trip this month...
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2008 | writing, art, artists
Fantastic article by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker.
Quoted: Why do we equate genius with precocity?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2008 | books, writing, news, Michiko Kakutani, David Foster Wallace
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.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 11 2008 | Franz Kafka, author, writing
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.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2008 | Colson Whitehead, writing, essay
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?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2008 | books, thepugetnews, writing
100 Best First Lines from Novels. A ton of great stuff here, including Thomas Pynchon at #3!
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 07 2008 | fanfic, scifi, writing, reading, thepugetnews
For fans of the TV show "Firefly," this is supposed to be a pretty great piece of fanfic.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 30 2008 | thepugetnews, design, writing
Writer Michael Pollan has an adorable writing house. I'd like one of those!
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