J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Pudgy Pigeon Enterprises (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I find this article from the New York Times to be fascinating. Apparently, J.D. Salinger (now, age 90) has sued a Swedish author named Fredrik Colting (age 33) for copyright infringement. From what I can tell, Colting wrote a character that is presumed to be Holden Caufield at age 76. This character is referred to as Mr. C-- never Holden Caufield. Yet, it's apparent by the character's being and the...
communicatrix (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
This blog isn’t the only work of…well, something that had an anniversary lately. Back in 2006, I started writing a column for professional and aspiring-professional actors about the non-acting aspects of the business. Over time, it’s morphed into more of a marketing column, but I still try to slip in little bits of helpful info I [...]
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige board Richard Ayoade's Submarine.
Nicola's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
A fun wee fun book quiz. Thanks Christina ! What To Do: Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It’s a lot harder than you think! Describe yourself: Naïve. Super (Erland Loe) How do you feel: American on Purpose (Craig Ferguson) Describe where you currently live: Neither Here Nor There (Bill Bryson) If you could go anywhere,...
POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
I was looking at a list of banned books , and found myself amazed anew at the idea that anyone would feel so powerful and so right that they would take it upon themselves to attempt to control the flow of information into another person's life, another person's mind. And yet books are banned every year--books many of us consider great, important, wonderful works of literature. Consider the list below,...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
English poet Philip Larkin, informed that heaven would restore him to a state of childish innocence, abjured the supposed gift, preferring “money, keys, wallets, letters, books, long-playing records, dinner, the opposite sex and other solaces of adulthood.” I know what he meant. In the Thirties, Larkin’s era, as for my generation that followed, life still had a defined beginning,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Compact, wearing jeans and a gray t-shirt, Nick Hornby admits he knows a thing or two about a fan's obsession with an artist's work. "When...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
The ongoing war of words between Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien will come to a head this Friday night. Here's how the Yahoo TV blog gave readers the news: While critics continue to question what President Obama has done to earn a Nobel Peace Prize, Hillary Clinton's peacemaking efforts are quickly bearing fruit. Thanks in part to the secretary of state's involvement, NBC...
Just Beyond The Bridge (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Taiwan isn’t really a place where you can afford to allow things like natures bad side stop you. Case in point, since I got to Fuhlong - a beach on the east coast of the island I’ve had to deal with some pretty big spiders, some pretty enormous cockroaches, and a very small leech. I won’t tell you I’m brave about this stuff - cockroaches especially are a bit freaky (especially...
over the cliff, onto the rocks. (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Friendly bet, lazily monitored, you got it.Two years? We can make it easier than that [maybe; if they close my library it could take me a couple of years]. Of the top 100 books of all time, only 42 have been banned or challenged [I was a tad confused in my earlier post], which means we can cross Rand and Wolfe [and a host of others] off the list without even batting an eye.The Revised Listbold =
View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Once again somebody gets a graphic lesson that large wild animals are not cuddly pets . I don't get this about some people: Look, you know how hard a time you have understanding cats and dogs? Well, we've spent ten thousand years and more in an effort to unscrew the inscrutability of Felis catus and Canis familiaris , and they still both communicate with us about as well as Joe Biden after a particularly...
100 Readers (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Catherine is a counsellor and psychotherapist in her 30s living in Oxfordshire. Describe yourself in five words. Intuitive, thoughtful, driven, analytic, empathic. How would your friends describe you? Forthright. Do you do anything creative? Just day to day things – creating a home, making things with shells or paper, doodles, photography, an occasional painting or writing, sand sculptures at...
Grazia Fashion (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
So the invisible man has really disappeared this time. According to industry sources, Martin Margiela, a fashion designer more reclusive than Greta Garbo or JD Salinger, has finally left the building, at Maison Martin Margiela, at least. It seems somehow appropriate for such a low key designer whose collection's labels are famously blank, that he would enact the ultimate disappearing...
Cosmopoetica - Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
[cc image by Caro’s Lines] Slightly modified from a meme I was “tagged” for: take 15 minutes (no more!) to list, in no particular order, 15 books (in this case novels) that have most intensely “stuck with you.” No Googling, etc. I was a bit surprised by what I came [...]
Film Intuition: Review Database (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Now on DVD Photo Slideshow Read Jen's Review of Season 1, Volume 2 Bookmark this on Delicious Print Page It sounds like a lost episode of Seinfeld as we watch the main ensemble try to seduce a relative and hack into a computer while crashing a wake in pursuit of the world's most delicious pie recipe that has perished along with a deceased chef. And in another offering, we're presented with a cross...
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