Hyper-referential post-modern author David Foster Wallace ended his own life this weekend. Best known for his half-ton Pynchon in a blender Infinite Jest he also wrote a number of short story collections and essays. My own favorite is one my wife had to entice me to read, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again [...]
Arthur C. Clarke, one of the premier science fiction writers and one of the inventors of the geostationary telecommunication satellite, has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Clarke saw himself as a popularizer and cheerleader of the possible technological advances of the future in his science fiction writing. Yet he often introduced [...]
As a New Yorker I appreciate any solution to a small dwelling space, especially one that takes into account rampant bibliophilia. Take a look at this shelving cum staircase from a London flat that is lit via skylight and leads to a top floor bedroom. Levitate Architect’s Tim Sloan describes the design as an “…upside [...]
The Coen Bothers — you boys look too thin, have you eaten? Let me fix you something… In a mitzvah likely to earn them pinched cheeks all around from book lovers, those nice young boys Ethan and Joel Coen are set to adapt Michael Chabon’s acclaimed novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union for their next picture. [...]
Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S Truman, died today. She was best known for her mystery novels set in Washington D.C. such as Murder in The White House. To an earlier generation it was her singing career that made her infamous and put her father in the headlines. From the New York [...]
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