December 2008
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Suggest Some Books For the Holidays →
John Scalzi encourages his readers to recommend books as gifts this holiday season. I couldn’t agree more. Not only are books awesome Christmas gifts, but the publishing industry as a whole is in dire straights right now and could use a little extra help. (He particularly recommends Nick Harkaway’s The Gone-Away World, which I’m going to have to add to my Amazon wish list.)
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The 10 Best Books of 2008 →
The NYT recommends five fiction and five nonfiction books published this year. The fiction books look particularly intriguing — and if I had the cash right now, I’d check them out.
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“If the artist is excessively dependent on simply being “liked,” so that her true...”
– David Foster Wallace (via dailymeh)
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“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be...”
– William Morris
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“Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”
– Ray Bradbury