November 2010
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Your say about the future of books in Australia. →
I know this will be relevant to the interests of many of my Australian friends.
The Federal Government has set up the Book Industry Strategy Group to talk about the future of the Australian book industry. If you love reading, writing or bookshops (or Kindles, iPads and e-readers) consider having your say here or by emailing them directly.
Some tips about submissions to Government: you...
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“… implied by the word curator is an intuitive sense of pattern recognition...”
– The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete) Tomorrow Museum
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“Uninspiring, bland, homogeneous stuff, that’s uncompetitive by next year,...”
– “Strategy Can Do Better,” Umair Haque Harvard Business Review
"...so I was dating this dude playing in Interpol... →
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Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4
1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
- By Richard Brautigan
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak via Catherine Campbell, Michelle.
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All the lonely people: Roger Ebert's Journal →
Lonely people have a natural affinity for the internet. It’s always there waiting, patient, flexible, suitable for every mood.
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Blogging Makes Joan Didion Uncomfortable →
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“Siri and I have been together for 30 years and have shared our work with each...”
– Paul Auster on the influence of his wife Siri Hustvedt.
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“The thing that is so tragic about America today is that young people who go to...”
– Paul Auster
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“It’s hard not to think “death drive” every time I go on the internet. Opening...”
– n+1: Sad as Hell
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“I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human,...”
– n+1: Sad as Hell
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All in the Mind: Nido (nest) therapy →
I’m on the tram listening again to a fascinating episode of the All in the Mind podcast about nidotherapy, where psychiatrists focus on changing not the personality of mentally ill people but their environment to bring their patients relief, control and - sometimes- happiness.
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“Any book that is written down to children, or with one nervous sideways eye on...”
– J.K. Rowling (via sincerelykerbie)
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“Everything great that we know has come to us from neurotics. They alone have...”
– Marcel Proust (via psychotherapy)
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“The shower threw steaming water into the dawn at the twist of a tap, just as it...”
– “The apparently mundane doesn’t impress us, whether it’s a successful plane journey, hot water on tap or a successful immigrant.” Celebrate the ordinary things, a beautiful piece of political writing.
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Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - The Independent →
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“It feels important to remind ourselves, at this point, that Facebook, our new...”
– Zadie Smith on Facebook The New York Review of Books
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“If the aim is to be liked by more and more people, whatever is unusual about a...”
– Zadie Smith on Facebook. The New York Review of Books
WTF has Obama done so far? →
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“They woke up at three in the afternoon; she picked up the children at school and...”
– Jane Birkin describes the routine she shared with Serge Gainsbourg in the 19070s. Vanity Fair
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Watch
I have been having a real lark over on this video Q&A place, VYou. Does that sound like your grandma explaining a website? Is that what I sound like? That’s what I think I sound like. There’s a bit of a gamble in this kind of experience, obviously: that you could get your feelings hurt by a really nasty question or that you would eventually be consumed with narcissism like the guy in TV...