Real quick before I leave, from my absolute favorite job post on Craigslist this week, UNDERGROUND CULTURE AND POLITICS:
International web site located in Washington DC seeks writers. Part-time positions could become full-time. We pay particular attention to concerts and events here in the area and have plans for a local version of our site.
Students are [...]
On Sunday, the wife and I are leaving for a well-overdue honeymoon/graduation celebration/we-have-not-been-anywhere-together-in-years trip to Costa Rica. I’ve never been there, and though the dog-eared Fodor’s and Lonely Planet guides have been sitting at my bedside for a few months, I’ve never looked at them. I know we’ll be on the west coast beaches for [...]
I’ll still be posting in limited capacity due to this week’s “life milestone,” but in the meantime, here are some links for time wasting.
The NYTimes talks with Dmitri Nabokov about the craziness surrounding his father’s last, unpublished manuscript, “The Original of Laura.”
The Library of Congress is webcasting Jennifer 8. Lee’s recent reading from her new [...]
On Thursday morning–about eighteen hours before my shoulder bag containing my jump drive, a half-read copy of Then We Came to the End, and my near-obsolete G4 iBook was stolen from me–I stepped out of my apartment onto the brick sidewalk in front of my building to have a cigarette, and saw walking briskly towards [...]