In case you haven’t heard, Kurt Vonnegut died last night at the age of 84.
He will be missed.
Archive for April, 2007
Booking through Thursday: Where does the time go?
Posted in Books, meme on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Booking through Thursday asks:
Have you ever missed an important appointment because you have become so engrossed in a book you forgot the time or were up so late reading that you didn’t wake up in time? Been late to work because you couldn’t resist the temptation and left the house too late?
I actually can’t think [...]
Television is the enemy of reading
Posted in Books on April 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now, it’s not going to come to a surprise to most of you that television lives in complete opposition to reading. Every hour of TV watched is an hour we could have spent reading, but I never had much of a problem with this. I watched one, maybe two, television shows a week and that [...]
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Posted in Books, Reviews on April 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For a book that made the Booker shortlist in 2005, Saturday was excruciating to read. Now, I don’t pay a lot of attention to bookers and PEN awards. Maybe I’ll give a Pulitzer or a Nobel a second glance. Maybe. But Saturday literally got drenched in praise. It had praise dripping out of its ears. [...]
Missing the Midwest
Posted in j-school, journalism, midwest on April 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Michael Massing over at CJR writes about the media missing the midwest and talks about the disadvantage the Missouri J-school students face.
A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Hudson says that the Ivy League network operating there gives students access to a much broader range of job opportunities than is available at the [...]
n + 1: Decivilizing Process, Issue Five
Posted in Reviews, lit journals on April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Let me start this by putting my chips on the table. I love n + 1. I’ve only read issues four and five, but I am absolutely enamored. n + 1 for the uninitiated, is a twice-yearly journal of literature, culture, and politics. They also post frequently on their website, which now has a feed [...]
