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Apocalypse soon?

I’ll admit I’m not the best at spotting trends and certainly am not, in the words of Frank Zappa, a trend monger. But it strikes me the apocalypse is in and hot, at least what based on what my RSS reader showed me today.

First, I saw that BuzzFeed updated its December compilation of posts […]

Monday marginalia

Kurt Vonnegut says he’s done writing books. “I’ve said everything I have to say and I’m completely in print,” he told a reporter. “I’m old, for God’s sake — I’m terribly tired.” (Via Maud Newton.) John at SF Signal takes a somewhat critical look (with which I agree) at an article regading the “obligations” […]

Weekend marginalia

Some items that caught my attention as I continue to procrastinate on at least two book reviews I’ve been planning to write for probably two weeks now:

Oh no. Dog obesity is on the rise. (I particularly love the headline for the second item.) Richard Powers, whose book The Echo Maker won the 2006 National […]

Marginalia 1-07

I’m thinking that to help distinguish them, or maybe just for the hell of it, this year’s marginalia will be denominated by number. While I’m not sure this is the system that will be used, here’s this year’s first installment:

The LA Times asks if Amazon plays with book prices if you’ve put a book […]

Midweek marginalia

Normally, this week is fairly laid back with plenty of time to read and get caught up. For some reason, that’s not true this year and besides work committments I have a couple reviews I haven’t started. Therefore, a dose of linkage:

This year’s edition of Scott Hudson’s top 10 people who should get out […]