- What if making the web more valuable means making it advertising-free? #
- Finished “U and I” by Baker, keep getting distracted from Bellow. #
- Don’t like the Strand, but like Moleskine, and Strand is the place to buy the notebooks. #
- Visualize Obama’s State of the Union using Wordle: http://www.rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/sotu/ #
- I don’t think they grant degrees, but there is still http://omnisio.com/startupschool08 #
- Netherland Wins Pen/Faulkner Award http://tinyurl.com/cbnpc9 The Pulitzer is next, mark my word #
- Anyone going to the Festival of New French Writing? http://frenchwritingfestival.com/schedule.html #
- Zoë Heller in NYTimes: “The point of fiction is…to engage with people whose politics or points of view are unpleasant or contradictory.” #
- E.L. Doctorow at NYU tonight. in reply to luxlotus #
- Sitting next to Doctorow. #
- They’re doing translation on the fly for the panelists and moderator through radioed earphones. Fancy! #
- Somehow, the conversation at the table next to mine has revolved for 10 minutes around the same question: “Have you smoked with your kids?” #
- “Publishers sell writers instead of books.” –Philip Gourevitch speaking the sad truth at NYU right now. #
- Bernard-Henri Lévy just arrived with his entourage–only a French intellectual would. Will post the panel discussion on my website later. #
2/27/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-27
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