Bulletin Board
- I hadn’t heard about this before but it looks like there will be a Reel Dakota Film Festival in Sioux Falls this September. It is, however, the same weekend as the South Dakota Festival of Books.
Blog Headline of the Week
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
Bookish Linkage
- Kirsty Logan makes a valid argument that there is a particular joy in the unread book because it “exists only in the primordial soup of your imagination, and there it can evolve into any story you like.”
- Foreign Policy magazine is running a series of excerpts from foreign fiction and nonfiction it’s calling the magaizine’s first-ever translation project. (The Literary Saloon)
- NYT columnist Roger Cohen explains some of the reasons Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone is so outstanding. (Blog of a Bookslut)
- Rory Stewart was elected to the British Parliament this week as a Conservative. Stewart wrote The Places in Between, one of my favorite books of 2006.
- PEN has posted a variety of multimedia from the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. (Three Percent)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Go to How Rich Are You? — and then quit your bitchin’. (The Consumerist)
- Top 10 reasons you should quit Facebook.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 1, 1940
