Hard enough when you have only five weeks remaining before a cross-country relocation, but to spend a Sunday riding around to the various "best views" of the city in order to show it off to my wife's cousin Greg who is visiting from New York has made the impending move that much more difficult to comprehend. I'm going to miss this beautiful city, even if one of its red light cameras snapped a photo of my smiling face today, meaning that I will owe this fine town over two hundred bucks in a few weeks. After the tour, I grilled us up some pork chops and thought about a future plate of BBQ ribs, fried okra, and black-eyed peas, and wondered if that will be enough to take the place of looking down at San Diego from Mount Soledad. We'll see. The Hold Steady will be shaking loose my fillings in a few hours, so today (Happy Prez's Day) the short items of interests will have to do.
The Chicago Sun-Times speaks with Gillian Anderson about her career after The X-Files, including her role in the screen adaptation of Dickens's Bleak House which has been airing since January as part of PBS's Masterpiece Theater.
Will Margaret Atwoods new invention called LongPen spell the end of in-person book signings?
Ms Atwood, 66, is to launch the device - which has been seen by only a select few at secret testings - at the London Book Fair a fortnight from today, where publishers and authors from around the world will be given a demonstration. The writer will be in Canada but will create what is being billed as the world's first transatlantic autograph.
A video screen will link Ms Atwood with the public, allowing them to speak to her. Then, as she signs a personal message at one end, a robot arm instantly replicates the strokes in a copy of the book at the other.
This BBC article has some details on the long-awaited film version of Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, expected in theaters in 2007.
Nearly 3,000 pages-worth of Thomas Merton documents have been unearthed in the New Jersey retirement apartment of editor Robert Giroux.
A Faulkner letter in which he bemoans the fact that he was suckered into signing a screenwriting contract fetched $18,000 at an auction yesterday.
A Dada exhibit opened yesterday at the National Gallery. The Washington Times' Peter Singer offers a preview and a brief overview of the movement.
If you find yourself on the British Isles and in need of a good place to walk, you might want to check out some of these "literary walks" to spice up your exercise routine.
Before you read this, let me remind you that being a player-hater is an ugly thing: "Adora Svitak loves to read and write. Over the past 18 months she has had a 296-page book published and written 400 short stories and nearly 100 poems. Typing at 80 words a minute, she has produced 370,000 words while reading up to three books a day. The last novel she finished was Voltaire's Candide. Not bad for an eight-year-old."
Ray Davies' new album Other People's Lives, which was inspired by his time living in New Orleans, hits shelves tomorrow. The NY Times has a nice piece on this legend, a man that deserves far more credit than I think he gets.
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