January 2012
21 posts
“Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable...”
– NPR Review of tfios
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/17/145343351/the-fault-in-our-stars-love-in-a-time-of-cancer
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25 clever ideas to make life easier →
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“After Enron, I’d meet new people and have what I call a second...”
– Overachievers: what it takes to be a bright young thing | Money | The Guardian
“There’s a new Dark Knight film out this year. Calling Batman “the...”
– Charlie Brooker
DVD Review: Hearts of Darkness →
“One of the arguments for old-school newspapers is discovery — next to the...”
– Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
“Deschanel and her friends looked around and smartly realized that if they could...”
– Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
Paris Review – The Laundry Room, Thomas Beller →
Lovely/sad stories.
“But this impulse to collect these books is slightly more complicated: it isn’t...”
– Paris Review – The Book Club, Jason Diamond
Paris Review – Miss Piggy, Literary Icon, Emma... →
December 2011
26 posts
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“But to focus on the camera’s lie is not so much a deconstruction of the media,...”
– http://t.co/TA0p5ByM
“His unworldly fluency never deserted him, his commitment was passionate, and he...”
– Christopher Hitchens: ‘the consummate writer, the brilliant friend’ |The Guardian
Nieman Reports | It’s a Long Article. It’s a Short... →
Review: Puss in Boots 3D →
“Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I...”
– Haruki Murakami, interviewed in The Guardian.
12. READ. LOOK. THINK. | Jessica Stanley. →
November 2011
32 posts
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You know you're a film graduate when...
the organist plays the academic procession out of the hall and all you can think of is Buster Keaton.
“But there simply cannot be any rule, or any carceral logic, or any arguments...”
– News Desk: Central Booking : The New Yorker
Loaf of bread 'saves woman's life in car crash' →
Meanwhile, in Scotland…
A Stirling woman has revealed that a loaf of bread helped save her life during a car crash.
Mother-of-two Liz Douglas explained that her £1.15 medium-sliced Hovis Soft White loaf cushioned her head after her car hit a telegraph pole.
Her Nissan Note became a write-off after it flipped over, but thankfully she walked away with just minor cuts and bruises.
She told...