July 2009
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“In the evenings I usually watch television or go to the movies. Weekends I often...”
– The Moviegoer, natch. “Where Happiness Costs So Little” is such a great line; I’m going to have to use it somewhere. (via The Second Pass)
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The Virgin Suicides' Sweet 16 →
Interesting look back on The Virgin Suicides and its author Jeffrey Eugenides, 16 years after the novel’s original publication. I was interested to learn that, outside of a short story based on the first chapter, it was his first published work.
I can’t remember the exact timeline, but I first picked this book up sometime during high school and was absolutely blown away by its tone...
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“I caught flu and stayed in my room shivering and reading Dracula — for me it...”
– Author Helen Oyeyemi, quoted in this review of her horror novel White is for Witching.
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“Undeniably, there is money to be made in digital publishing with free reader...”
– John Gruber hits it out of the park in his article Charging for Access to News Sites.
This seems to be the crucial factor separating the news sites making money from the news sites hemorrhaging money. As Gruber points out, the old media dinosaurs who refuse to see the light about online...
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Fact labels for credit cards →
NYT op-ed on a proposal to radically simplify and standardize credit card information disclosure in order to help customers better understand what they’re getting into. I love this idea, inspired in part by the FDA’s nutrition facts standards — it’s good design that helps empower people.
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Maud Newton reviews C.E. Morgan's new novel All... →
Kentuckian and Berea graduate C.E. Morgan’s new novel seems like the perfect thing for me — taughtly constructed, deeply conscious of place, and filled with unmistakeable echoes of religion. (The review is posted on The Second Pass, my favorite new bookmark.)