A Colossal Waste of Time: Literary Links

Bookmarks folder dump, as of Oct 17, 2014

Javier Marias

Google Books - Dance And Dream - Google Books

Amazon.com: Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear (Vol. 1) (9780811216128): Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa: Books

3quarksdaily - Javier Marías’ Your Face Tomorrow

Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Your Face Tomorrow, part 3) By Javier Marías trans Margaret Jull Costa - Reviews, Books - The Independent

The Believer - Javier Marías's YOUR FACE TOMORROW: VOLUME THREE

'Voyage Along the Horizon' and 'Your Face Tomorrow,' by Javier Marías - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times

Graphic Novels

Rock Holmes Transformation, Part Three: RESOLUTION, Black Jack and Buddha (1972-1978) | Tezuka in English

Osamu Tezuka | 22:BLOG

Osamu Tezuka - Buddha

Graphic Novel Review: Buddha, Vol. 3: Devadatta

The Superhero Novel You’ve Been Waiting For « Mumbai Boss

Howard Chaykin's Black Kiss II Now Among the Most Forbidden Comics

Camilla d'Errico on Inspiration, Pop Surrealism, and "Inappropriate" Images - Print Magazine

Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction | Brain Pickings

Illuminated "Heart of Darkness," lavishly illustrated by Matt Kish - Boing Boing

Roz Chast: “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” | The New Yorker

The In-Between World of the Graphic Novelist - The New Yorker

Unsorted Links

ABC of Influence

10 Acclaimed Authors Who Only Wrote One Book | www.publetariat.com

Loneliness of the long-distance writer | Charles Bukowski story

Poetry Daily Prose Feature - Dennis O'Driscoll: "Quote Poet Unquote"

PEN American Center - Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future

50 Fancy Words - Times Topics Blog - NYTimes.com

" The tempest in my mind" p 16

Tempest Character Free Essays 1 - 30

The Death of the Moth, and other essays, by Virginia Woolf (chapter22)

In That Great River: A Notebook by Anna Kamienska : Poetry Magazine [article/magazine]

John Updike’s Archive - A Great Writer at Work - NYTimes.com

Updike at Work: A Conversation - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Browse By Author: D - Project Gutenberg

Hear Unreleased David Foster Wallace Audio -- Vulture

Daily literary quotes by famous authors

ModeRoom Books - Browse our collection of fine 21st century fiction literature from mode authors: Roman Payne, T.M. Stringfellow, Anthony Steyning, Alan Emmins, Ron Dakron, Sam North and others...

‘Use a fountain pen to write’ : interview with chandrahas

Llosa - The premature obituary of the book.

Political Affairs Magazine - Not Your Usual Suspects: Leonardo Padura Talks to PA

Letter to John Updike | The New York Review of Books

America First? | The New York Review of Books

Adiós Hemingway - Leonardo Padura Fuentes

The Millions : The Wake of What I Love: A Commencement Address

Bookshelves

Walden - Chapter 1-A

Francine du Plessy Gray

Aspects of E.M. Forster: Guestbook

Ved Mehta, A Writer

Faulkner at Virginia

E M Forster: a New Life

Phrases from Shakespeare

Symbolism in Tim OBriens The Things They Carried - by Krystle Hernandez - Helium

Soundings - 99.12.08

BBC - Archive - In Their Own Words: British Novelists - Interviews with remarkable modern writers

Online dating: Love between the covers | The Economist

Literature Network Forums - Powered by vBulletin

‘Proust’s Way?’: An Exchange | The New York Review of Books

Proust’s Way? | The New York Review of Books

Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books - WSJ.com

Bookslut | The Amazing True Life Origin of Bookslut

Freedom from choice - Salon.com

Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 Cover Letter for a Vancouver Sun Job | Reading Copy Book Blog

'Runaway': Alice's Wonderland - New York Times

Is Fiction the Art of Living? - Mario Varga Llosa

Jonathan Yardley - Is it a foolish infatuation or a great love story? - washingtonpost.com

The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa

The Guardian Profile: Mario Vargas Llosa | Books | The Guardian

Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize - NYTimes.com

Akhond of Swat: The Nobel over the century

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 120, Mario Vargas Llosa

Philip Roth: On Writing, Aging And 'Nemesis' : NPR

Memories of Vargas Llosa - NYTimes.com

Paris Review – Staff Picks: Mahmoud Darwish, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Paris Review

Conversation: Alex Ross' 'Listen to This' | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour | PBS

'Luka and the Fire of Life' author Salman Rushdie embraces two critics, his sons

The New York Times > Books > Interactive Feature > A Literary Map of Manhattan

:::: Time Out Delhi - city guide and fortnightly listing magazine ::::

Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill; The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri; When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson; The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler; The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannah; Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser; All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes; Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay; Shatter by Michael Robotham; A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré; All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney; The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

Author Name Pronunciation Guide

GALERIA D'IMATGES

Galeria d'imatges X

& piscolabis librorum maioris

A Journey Round My Skull: Catalonian Book Fetishists

Art vs. Laundry by Stephen Burt : The Poetry Foundation [article]

Why Live Without Writing by Durs Grünbein : Poetry Magazine [article/magazine]

The 15 most-read Poetry Foundation & Poetry magazine articles of 2010 : : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

National Short Story award goes to David Constantine | Books | guardian.co.uk

Bookslut | The War and Peace of Hindi Literature!

B.S. 1960 - A First-Person Narrative - Newsweek

Daybook - The Barnes & Noble Review

Cami Park | HTMLGIANT

> kill author | Issue Four | Cami Park | Made From Scratch

Review: Self Portraits: Fictions–Part 1 | Sonora Review

Ignorance - Kundera - excerpt about nostalgia

Best Books of 2010

100 Places to Find Your Next Great Read | Online College Courses

Susan Sontag: A Trifecta Remembrance | Brain Pickings

Literature – Russiapedia Prominent Russians

Guernica’s Top 25 of 2010

publishing gang signs

A Sniffy New Year | HiLobrow

YouTube - Junot Diaz: In His Own Words

BibliOZ.com Birthday Best Sellers

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 5, William Styron

Holden Caulfield’s Goddam War | Culture | Vanity Fair

Why literary archives are like monkfish | Books | guardian.co.uk

The Bread of Angels - Lapham’s Quarterly

List of best-selling fiction authors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On Gender, Numbers, & Submissions | Tin House

How to throw away a book | undercover economist | "The Undercover Economist", about economics in everyday life, and "Dear Economist", in which readers' questions are answered, tongue-in-cheek, with the latest economic theory – FT.com

Disturbing the universe - Books - livemint.com

Letters To A Young Poet - R. M. Rilke

Birnbaum v. Charles Baxter by Robert Birnbaum - The Morning News

The Believer - Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!

Jon McGregor's top 10 dead bodies in literature | Books | guardian.co.uk

Ward Six: Literary blurb translation guide

The lost postmodernist: Joseph McElroy | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times

YouTube - Teaching Poetry with Helen Vendler

Robert Creeley Interview with Don Swaim

The literary clock is ticking ... | Books | guardian.co.uk

The Arab Writers Union’s ‘Top 105′ of the 20th Century | Arabic Literature (in English)

Arabic Literature (in English)

The Travails Of Our Post-Colonial Subconscious Or What Does The English Language Have To Do To Be Recognized As An Indian Language? « The Spinning Head

Jonathan Franzen’s Despair and the Millennials’ Dream

Ann Beattie's New Yorker Stories | On Point

Review - Ann Beattie - - The New Yorker Stories - By Ann Beattie - NYTimes.com

lydia millet | identity theory interview

Illustrating An Agony in Eight Fits - 50 Watts

Kipling's interview with Mark Twain

The # shortstory Daily

The Millions : The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels

What your literary tote bag says about you | Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Burroughs Obscene in Translation, a Record Label for Poets, and More | Daily News | Poets & Writers

Story of the Week

Celebrating National Short Story Month: A Few (Short) Clips From The Archives : Monkey See : NPR

Book Review - The Anatomy of Influence - By Harold Bloom - NYTimes.com

Paris Review - intevrview - Philip Roth

Video: Interview with Philip Roth - May 2011

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Amitav Ghosh interview

In Appreciation of Philip Roth - Wendy Kaminer - Entertainment - The Atlantic

Harold Bloom on the Canon and Creativity - Brainiac

Five (literary) hidden treasures on the web — Contrary Blog

Khichri language

The Rumpus Interview With Scott McClanahan - The Rumpus.net

The Rumpus Interview With Paul Madonna - The Rumpus.net

Alphabetter Juice, Vladimir Sorokin and Other Great Reads - The Daily Beast

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | Posthumous

92Y_ Kurt Vonnegut 1983.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Reading as Cartography - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Entertainment - The Atlantic

The Count 2010 « Vida

Red Sari: An Analysis of S. Asian and Diaspora Book Covers - Red Sari

Fanfare for the Commonwealth man | Books | The Observer

I'm an Orange prize convert – for all the wrong reasons | Books | guardian.co.uk

250 Books By Women All Men Should Read | Joyland

A Literary Glass Ceiling? Why Magazines Aren't Reviewing More Female Writers. | The New Republic

A new tally by VIDA shows how few female writers appear in magazines. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine

Bookslut | Twenty-Three Short Thoughts About Women and Criticism

Women In Publishing - The Rumpus.net

New Yorker Fiction By the Numbers

the pundit - He don't like 'em

Naipaul, women writers, and what it means to be ‘unequal’ | Livemint Blogs

In Which We Consider The Macabre Unpleasantness Of Roald Dahl - Home - This Recording

Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship : Jhumpa Lahiri (2011)

The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review | Books | The Guardian

Being Ernest: John Walsh unravels the mystery behind Hemingway's suicide - Profiles, People - The Independent

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge - Google Books

John Lithgow Reads Mark Twain, Live-Illustrated | Brain Pickings

Ian McEwan on Books That Have Helped Shape His Novels | FiveBooks | The Browser

Best Esquire Magazine Stories - Top Articles in History of Journalism - Esquire

Esquire's 70 Greatest Sentences - Esquire

Scent of a woman's ink: Are women writers really inferior?—By Francine Prose (Harper's Magazine)

The 100 greatest non-fiction books | Books | guardian.co.uk

Readers Report Back From… Running Away - The Rumpus.net

BOMB Magazine: Jonathan Franzen by Donald Antrim

"I Just Called to Say I Love You" - Technology Review

Franzen interview with Laura Miller - Salon.com

Powells.com Interviews - Jonathan Franzen - Powell's Books

Franzen: The author of the moment - CNN

Jonathan Franzen, Bernadette Conrad: Intimately connected to the Zeitgeist (24/08/2005) - signandsight

Jonathan Franzen | Author | Big Think

Jonathan Franzen | Books | Interview | The A.V. Club

Dave Haslam interviews Jonathan Franzen

New Statesman -Interview: Jonathan Franzen

Video | Jonathan Franzen: 'America is almost a rogue state' | Books | guardian.co.uk

Best First Lines of Novels — Infoplease.com

Memories of Chekhov by Peter Sekirin | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Essay: In Praise of the Humble Comma - TIME

Flavorwire » University of Oxford Breaks Up with the Oxford Comma

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Books and Other Fetish Objects - NYTimes.com

More Fancy Words - NYTimes.com

Letters of Note: Okay, you lazy bitch

Woolf’s Letter to a Young Poet, Sarah Funke Butler

Elissa Bassist

Flavorwire » The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

Who Will You Find in ‘Banipal 40: Libyan Fiction’? | Arabic Literature (in English)

Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish | Books | guardian.co.uk

Hisham Matar On The Power Of Libyan Fiction : NPR

The Millions : Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française, and The Mirador

Ron Charles reviews ‘Birds of Paradise,’ by Diana Abu-Jaber - The Washington Post

Real Cities Novelized - NYTimes.com

Awful Library Books

Destined for Greatness: Baby Pictures of Famous Authors

Seamus Heaney

Unlikely childrens book authors

11 Literary Friendships We Can Learn From | Accredited Online Colleges.com

The Art of the Sentence: Lincoln Michel | Tin House

Daily chart: What the Dickens | The Economist

30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace on the Web | Open Culture

Flavorwire » Read a Postcard from DFW to Don DeLillo

Two Paths for the Novel by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books

PROUST IS DAMN FUNNY | More Intelligent Life

Slide Show: Literary New Yorker Cartoons : The New Yorker

Random Wodehouse Quote

Edith Wharton's Houses : The New Yorker

New Statesman - Living in the end times

The Joy of Books: A Stop-Motion Rainbow Intervention | Brain Pickings

Don't Limit My Lit!

Letters of Note: I like words

An heiress winds up with a paltry inheritance : The New Yorker

Nora Ephron : The New Yorker

Nora Ephron’s Favorite Love Stories - The Daily Beast

The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut : The New Yorker

Nora Ephron dies at 71 - The Washington Post

Nora Ephron: Everyone's Arch and Insightful New Best Friend : The New Yorker

Lena Dunham Remembers Nora Ephron : The New Yorker

'Look at the Birdie' - unpublished Kurt Vonnegut story

‘A Farewell to Arms’ With Hemingway’s Alternate Endings - NYTimes.com

A brief survey of the short story part 37: Alice Munro | Books | guardian.co.uk

VQR » An Appreciation of Alice Munro

Interview: Alice Munro | Books | The Observer

VQR » An Interview with Alice Munro

The Observer profile: Man Booker International Prize winner Alice Munro | Books | The Observer

CBC Digital Archives - The Lives of Alice Munro - Alice Munro's rural roots

Book Reviews by Critics | Find your next book!

Los Angeles Review of Books - A Response To Matvei Yankelevich

Los Angeles Review of Books - The Gray Area: An Open Letter To Marjorie Perloff

The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf : contents

Virginia Woolf in Praise of the Common Reader

Infinite Boston - Boston Sites & DFW's Infinite Jest

The strongest man in the world

Lone Star Statements - The Morning News

List of Olympic medalists in art competitions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Snacks of the Great Scribblers Print New York by wendymacnaughton

Jacket magazine - Jacket Interviews

The Rumpus Interview With Elizabeth Scarboro And Lidia Yuknavitch - The Rumpus.net

In the Kingdom of the First Person | 50 Years | The New York Review of Books

The Slow Death of the American Author - NYTimes.com

One Hundred Literary Rumors | VICE United States

The Millions : “We love sentences and the people who create them.”

Writers and Their Books: Inside the Personal Libraries of Famous Authors | Brain Pickings

Vladimir Nabokov on Literature and Life: A Rare 1969 BBC Interview | Brain Pickings

Books of The Times - In Sketchy ‘Original of Laura,’ Nabokov Jousts With Death - Review - NYTimes.com

'Selected Poems': The Essential Nabokov In Verse : NPR

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

Paris Review – CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Preface, George Saunders

George Saunders: My desktop | Books | guardian.co.uk

All Nobel Prizes in Literature

Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus Highlights 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education | Open Culture

50 Writers, 50 Books - The Best Of Indian Fiction

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-great-gatsby-review-book-1925-20130506,0,3860329.story

Hilary Mantel - By the Book - NYTimes.com

How “War and Peace” works. by James Wood

Fiction | ANDREW GALLIX

Interviews | ANDREW GALLIX

Non-fiction | ANDREW GALLIX

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.

Books That I Have Known

A Century of Proust - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Paris Review - Some Notes on Translation and on Madame Bovary, Lydia Davis

Paris Review - Ten Stories from Flaubert, Lydia Davis

BOMB Magazine: Lydia Davis by Francine Prose

BOMB Magazine: Edward Said by Phillip Lopate

James Wood’s lighter side | Harvard Gazette

Los Angeles Review of Books - The Art Of The Critic: On James Wood

‘The Fun Stuff,’ by James Wood, and More - NYTimes.com

James Wood on the Books of 2009 : The New Yorker

Rachel Kushner’s ‘Flamethrowers’ - NYTimes.com

The Millions : Rachel Kushner Is Well On Her Way to Huge

Reading Markson Reading

Updike's Major Marginalia - NYTimes.com

Classic Books Annotated by Famous Authors – Flavorwire

See the inside of some of Wallace's books

Use of footnotes - Literature Discussion - GoodReads

Althouse: "My love of footnotes as art form, as commentary, as the place to embed sneaky and wry asides..."

GranneBlog » Why David Foster Wallace used footnotes

Even David Foster Wallace’s Threatening Faxes Include Footnotes | Death and Taxes

Forget the footnotes - DFW

Far Beyond A Literary Footnote - Washington Post

Footnotes and David Foster Wallace - the Editing of Infinite Jest - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Notes And Errata*: A Companion Guide To “The Unfinished” - The Rumpus.net

The New Customers | New Writing | Granta Magazine

Exclusive First Read: 'TransAtlantic' By Colum McCann : NPR

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Book Review - 'Telex From Cuba,' by Rachel Kushner - Review - NYTimes.com

Colum McCann’s Radical Empathy - NYTimes.com

Does Great Literature Make Us Better People? - NYTimes.com

Harold Bloom: 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' : NPR

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?': Bloom in Love

The Millions : The Paris Review’s Favorite Stories: The Millions Interviews Sadie Stein

Paris Review – Why David Means Is Not a Novelist, David Wallace-Wells

A Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Dreams of Italo Calvino by Jonathan Galassi | The New York Review of Books

The Man Booker International prize finalists speak | Books | guardian.co.uk

Claudio Magris in the Whirlpool | VERBUNKOS by Stefano Gulizia

Los Angeles Review of Books - How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain De Botton’s School Of Life

Canetti on Proust's Orientalism | VERBUNKOS by Stefano Gulizia

The Visionary Detective by Joyce Carol Oates | The New York Review of Books

Cool, Yet Warm by Zoë Heller | The New York Review of Books

Study: Reading Fiction Makes People Comfortable With Ambiguity

Read a 14th-Century Rhyming Poem Featuring the C-Word – Flavorwire

Jaswinder Bolina: Avoiding the Obvious - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

Writing Like a White Guy by Jaswinder Bolina

Bookshop Memories in a Changing India - NYTimes.com

Speaking Volumes: Bookshoppery | nilanjana roy

'New Strange' Stories Hold A Chilling Mirror To Life : NPR

Writers No One Reads • You’d be forgiven for not reading Jean-Pierre...

Books

65 Beginnings by Pierre Bettencourt | Edward Gauvin | Weird Fiction Review

LARB - My Bolaño Archive

10 Literary Restaurants for Hungry Book Nerds Around the World – Flavorwire

Shards of Summer by Christopher Benfey | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

J.D. Salinger and Eastern religion: Are there any lost books still in the vault?

Online Tagore Variorum :: School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University

Bichitra: The New Tagore Compendium

Christian Lorentzen reviews ‘Dear Life’ by Alice Munro · LRB 6 June 2013

Today in silly book reviews: Let’s all fight about Alice Munro - Salon.com

Literary Review - Kevin Jackson on Kafka

‘Animal Farm’: What Orwell Really Meant by George Orwell | The New York Review of Books

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