Things have been a little hectic in these parts, but I’m figuring right about now the handful of people that read this blog can probably use a welcome diversion. So here’s a special edition of links for Thursday Time Wasting. Enjoy.
WaPo gives a roundup of recently-released memoirs.
In a GQ profile, Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. [...]
I won’t be posting this week because I’m polishing a pretty big project for a Friday due date. Here’s how it’s going, roughly.
Anyways. More next week.
On May 6th Leslie Pietrkzyk–whose blog I pickpocket way too information from–and DC writer Matt Klam will be discussing the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald for a bit at the Arts Club of Washington not far from GWU on the orange line. Here are the details from Work In Progress:
Flirting with the Masters: Fiction [...]
Slate provides an FAQ for poetry.
Once you’re done there, pick up one of the poetry collections from WaPo’s round-up.
YuppiePunk has an impressively comprehensive array of literary tattoos.
Louise Erdrich reads Lorrie Moore’s “Dance In America” for the New Yorker’s fiction podcast, which, if you have not subscribed to yet, you should.
Speaking of podcasts, GalleyCat (self-) promotes [...]
This week the folks at Brevity posted regarding nonfiction pariah James Frey’s recent addition to his website to get ready for the release of his new novel, Bright Shiny Morning: a literal sounding board where anyone can call and leave him a voicemail. About anything. (In his words, “Be Cool. Be Nasty. Be Whatever You [...]