The always interesting Letters of Note note a letter from Oscar Wilde about a line included in the preface of his The Picture of Dorian Gray. "All art is quite useless."
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- Jonathan S.
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- I am a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. I am working on a book about the Lincoln Highway. Follow me: http://thefatherroad.com/
Books Published
Books Published In
- Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World
- Going Mutant: The Bat Boy Exposed
- Home Brew Wind Power
- Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists
- My Funny Major Medical
- My Funny Valentine: America's Most Hilarious Writers Take On Love, Romance, and Other Complications
- The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes
Magazines Published In
- Amphora Magazine
- BPM Magazine
- Beer Northwest Magazine
- Canoe and Kayak Magazine
- City Arts
- Coffee House Digest
- Comedians Magazine
- Culture: The Word on Cheese
- Diner Journal
- Discover America Travel Guide
- Distinctly Northwest Magazine
- Epitaphs Magazine
- Fine Books and Collections Magazine
- Forever Green
- Geez Magazine
- Ghettoblaster Magazine
- Halftime Magazine
- Idaho Magazine
- Lexus Magazine
- Meatpaper
- Metro Dot Pop
- Nevada Magazine
- Northwest Travel Magazine
- Parody Poetry Journal
- Presence Magazine
- Put an Egg on It
- Rain Taxi Review of Books
- Remedy Quarterly
- SOMA Magazine
- Seattle Business Magazine
- Seattle Sound Magazine
- Sip Northwest Magazine
- Stage Directions Magazine
- Sublime Magazine
- Swindle Magazine
- Touring & Tasting Magazine
- Twins Magazine
- Uppercase Magazine
- Venuszine
- Welding and Cutting Magazine
Newspapers Published In
Blogs I Contribute To
Websites Published On (Music Writing)
Websites Published In (Humor Writing)
Websites Published In (Misc Writings)
Photography Published In
Magazines, Sites, and Blogs I Read Frequently
- Atlantic
- Bookdwarf
- Bookninja
- Comics Curmudgeon
- Crosscut Seattle
- Curious Expeditions
- Esquire
- Grist
- Guardian Unlimited Books
- Harper's Magazine
- Largehearted Boy
- Magazine Publishers of America
- Media Bistro
- Morning News
- National Book Critics Circle Board
- Neatorama
- New York Times Book Section
- New York Times Magazine
- New Yorker
- Newsmap
- Onion, The
- Slate Magazine
- Smithsonian
- Three Quarks Daily
- USA Today Pop Candy
- Vanity Fair
- Weekly World News
Writers I Read Regularly
Blog Archive
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- Notes Towards the Memoirs of a Book Thief
- An Introduction to the Poetry of William Blake
- Dictator Lit
- Explicit Text Pulled, Then Pulled Back
- Explicit Text Pulled
- Friday's Poem
- Happy Birthday, Raven
- The Most Famous Unfinished Works of Art
- Skirts in Dust Jackets
- J.D. Salinger Has Died
- The Many Meanings of Walt Whitman's Glasses
- Michelangelo's Despairing Poem
- Trends in Modern Book Collecting
- Ten Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians
- The Book Club with Just One Member
- If You Have the World's Largest Coffee Table
- Original Photographs of the Civil War
- Green Readers
- My Friend, Franz Kafka
- The Greatest Story Ever Sold
- William Burroughs's Stuff
- The Death of Fiction?
- The Passport Photos of Famous Artists
- Aaaargh. Pirates!
- Very Cool Bookmarks
- Bibliographic Q&A
- Friday's Poem
- The Religious Affiliations of Comic Book Heroes
- But Enough About Me
- Shakespeare as Woman
- & Now - the History of the &
- Beware of the Bouncing Boy
- Werner Herzog Reads Curious George
- Well THIS is a Great Idea - The Sarcasm Punctuatio...
- Signed vs. Inscribed
- Jon's Writing on Executed Today
- The Death of the Slush Pile
- The Sex Lives of Civil War Soldiers
- Was the Bible Written Centuries Before Previously ...
- Book Reviewing Online
- Almanacs and the Private Library
- The Unstoppable Cult of Jane Eyre
- Folksy Fruit
- The American Rosetta Stone?
- Looking Ahead in Science Fiction
- A Call to Poets: Stay Alive
- The Playboy Revolution
- Friday's Poem
- Italian Opera Libretti
- Covering Covers
- Displaying Books: More Than Just A Good Read
- The Hulk Addresses AIDS
- 75 Books Every Writer Should Read
- How to Save Journalism
- Happy Birthday, Jack London
- Amateurs Only
- Act Now to Save Our Birds
- The Women
- Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
- Will the Book Survive?
- Paperless Doesn't Mean Green
- Jon's Writing on Vintage Seattle
- Reading Between the Lines of Your Relationship
- Jim Morrison's Long-Lost Poetry Cafe
- Alanis's Beat-Inspired Book
- Book Marks
- 11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever
- Unleash Your Inner Novelist
- Listening to Braille
- Friday's Poem
- Freelance Writing's Unfortunate New Business Model
- Edward R. Murrow Does Not Need an Elegy
- The End of a Friendship
- Art is Useless
- Author's Find Fertile Mix of Science and Religion
- And the Beat Goes On
- Out of Print
- Aleksandr Solyzhenisyn Was My Father
- Tongue Twisters
- The Ultimate Hipster Reading List
- Still Cool Camus
- Holy Funny Robin Video
- The Deaths of the Bronte Family
- Thai Orphanage Library
- L.L. Zamenhof and the Shadow People
- Author and Pet Pairings
- Thelonious Monk - The Man vs. The Legend
- La Tour Eiffel
- 16 Incredibly Impractical Superhero Costumes
- Magical Libraries
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