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Welcome to the Fall 2010 back to reality/school season. Here are some links to things I worked on over the summer and a brief summing-up of related enthusiasms, and also some descriptions of things that my friends or acquaintances or people I admire have done, that I’m excited about. 1. Tao Lin’s new book is out [...] Dear Iowan readers of Emily Magazine, or people in neighboring areas who might be able to make it to Iowa City by tomorrow night if they got in the car right now: I am reading in Iowa City tomorrow night, at Prairie Lights, at 7 pm! Curtis Sittenfeld will be there as well to introduce [...] When I was a teenager I would do this thing with my dad, who is a musician, where I would play him whatever Helium or Superchunk or Tori Amos or Pavement song I was currently obsessed with, to see what he thought of it. Typically this took place in the car. I would push the [...] After I wrote this column about Facebook I found I had extra bonus thoughts so I decided to put at least a few of them here. When Gawker Media announced that all employees we were required to have Facebook profiles, in 2007, some of my coworkers were decidedly un-thrilled at this encroachment on their private lives. [...] Cooking the Books — Episode 11 — Julie Klausner from The Awl on Vimeo. Yesterday in Asheville I went to Unitarian Universalist church services. In situations like this I always find myself making a conscious effort to look around for something ridiculous because if I don’t focus on the ponytail and Jimmy Buffet shirt on the balding man in the row in front of me I will feel so awed [...] I’m not really sure what to do with my Powell’s guest blogging gig. After a couple of false starts I decided to just treat it exactly like Emily Magazine, for better or worse. |
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