Eight Comic Books to Read...

Before you die!

Quote of the Week

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
- Marie de Sevigne

Taking a Few Days Off

Fear not, I'll return with gusto after the holiday weekend. In the meantime, why don't you go ahead and make yourself a comic strip.

A Leg to Stand On

You know there are a LOT of book covers and the like with a between-the-legs angle? It's true. Print Magazine puts one leg in front of the other.

Gutenberg! Gutenberg! Gutenberg!

Oh, not Steve. The other guy. The dude who made all those famous Bibles.

The Poetry of Barack Obama

Enjoy.

A Poem Relay

From the New Yorker's Book Bench comes this story about a poem being relayed to the Beijing Olympics much like the iconic torch is. The poem is “June,” by Shi Tao, an imprisoned Chinese journalist, that addresses the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.

Killing Joke: A Critic at Large

The New Yorker takes a look at the marvelous and near genius Coen brothers and the marvelous and near genius movies they make.

Jon's Writing in SOMA Magazine

Go to your nearest book retailer and find a copy of SOMA Magazine. I've got a story in their latest issue, the "Travel Issue." I wrote about a few spots on Paris that aren't your run-of-the-mill bars, the most interesting, perhaps, is Paris's first oxygen bar, located at Bleu Comme Bleu. I also discuss a bookstore/bar and a place that still serves the devilish absinthe.

I Heart Miranda July

Omnivoracious has an exclusive video where July shares a kitchen-table "Book Talk" she recently had with the brand-new paperback edition of her very own story collection, No One Belongs Here More Than You.

There is a God, and He Likes Grammatical Symbols

Holy cow! You undoubtedly know how much I like the ampersand, as evidenced from earlier posts. I'm understandably excited then when I found this - a blog dedicated to the ampersand.