Tuesday Hangovers
- Cynsations interviews Annette Curtis Klause about her upcoming book Freaks. There's also an interesting discussion of the movie version of Blood and Chocolate: "They seem to have made the characters older, as well as setting the story in Eastern Europe which kind of negates the whole point of the plot--werewolves could be sitting right next to you in your high school homeroom."
- Glen Hirshberg on matters of style.
- Jessica Lee Jernigan on evolving definitions of feminism.
- Waking up = Being drunk.
- PW's 2005 Cuffies (childrens' bookseller faves). (Via the on-it Miss Cecil.)
- Jed Hartman has started a great little sideblog called Neology, devoted to "words I encounter that I don't know the meanings of, and citations of interesting usage, and occasional malaprops from published sources, and so on."
- Subway library book dispensers in Sweden. Via the Sleep Deprivation Institute.
- Darby M. Dixon III announces that big things are coming: "So with a Darren Aronofsky sci-fi (?) epic (?) (The Fountain) due for release this year (?), and a new David Lynch film on the way, this year is set to be the biggest year for hipster artistic fervor ever. I am, you could say, excited. If David Foster Wallace were to this year release Infinte Jest 2: Smackin' Some Racket, I would pretty much completely lose my shit."
- Tod Goldberg's preferred coffee mug quotations.
- Kelly sells the rights for a possible movie version of "The Faery Handbag." Yay!
- And, behind the cut, I steal a lovely poem that Hannah Wolf Bowen posted:
"In and Out"
The dog searches until he finds me
upstairs, lies down with a clatter
of elbows, puts his head on my foot.
Sometimes the sound of his breathing
saves my life -- in and out, in
and out; a pause, a long sigh . . .
