FRIENDS WHO HELP THEIR FRIENDS by Daniel Davis Gambling with Rick is kind of like being jealous of God. There’s no point to it. You can bring your best game, you can have luck on your side, and he’s still going to clean you out. We instituted a rule last year—no bets larger than fifty … [Read more…]
Reading Flavorwire’s “50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers” challenged my literary fortitude. I found myself wanting to buy a bunch of new books, then take kickboxing lessons, hit the gym, or maybe dive of a cliff. I applaud the effort to compile a list of fifty tough books. Even putting this list together required its own toughness … [Read more…]
The Penguin Press has released a bizarre trailer for the new Thomas Pynchon book. His latest, The Bleeding Edge, is available September 17th. According to Penguin, in his new book, “Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet.” A write up at Penguin’s site tells us this about the … [Read more…]
Creative studio, Obvious State, has created orignal illustrations inspired by lines from famous literary works by T.S. Eliot, Philip K. Dick, Walt Whitman, Vonnegut, Cummings, Nabokov, Salinger and others. I want one several. There is profound beauty in prose, so why not make it art?
If you love books, and the stuff in books, from the music and places to the drinks your favorite fictional characters enjoy, then you’ll be mad for Small Demons. Not only does Small Demons host an ever-expanding archive of literary references, but they also cross-link and connect those references to other books, creating what they … [Read more…]