A friend of mine recently asked if there were any book lists out there that she could look at to try and finding some more good stuff to read. I scoffed a little inside before answering, not because it’s a bad question, but because there are just so many lists to choose from. Our conversation [...]
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My book club decided to read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace for our next book. I’ve had this book for a very long time, but never read it. I’m not even sure why I brought it to Madison with me when I moved last year — I think maybe when people came over I [...]
My friend Alex (who blogs over at Film Misery) posted about Harry Potter: The Musical, a production developed by the students at the University of Michigan. You can follow this link to watch parts of the show on YouTube. (I can’t embed code on my blog right now, so you’ll just have to follow the [...]
As much as it pains me to mention Kanye West on my blog at all, I just can’t help pointing this out. Kanye is, apparently, a proud non-reader. Interestingly enough, he’s also an author of a new book. In an interview about his book, Kanye “eloquently” pointed out… Sometimes people write novels and they just [...]
On Sunday, The New York Times reported that online comic xckd is going to have a book out in March! The article first asks if this book, a print book of a comic that is exclusively online, is a victory for the world of print because people don’t want to read things online. However, it [...]
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. Not everyone is excited to celebrate though — Geoffrey K. Pullum, head of linguistics and English language at the University of Edinburgh, takes on the famous book in this article — “50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice” — in The Chronicle of [...]
Darren Rose, the author of Problogger, is hosting another “31 Days to a Better Blog” project starting on April 1. I read Problogger regularly and have taken quite a few articles from that site as resources for the Blog Improvement Project, so I’m very excited about this. Even if you don’t consider yourself a professional [...]
Sobering news for this week’s edition of Journalism Friday. Today marks the final edition of one of the one of the two daily papers in Denver, Colorado, The Rocky Mountain News. After almost 150 years in business, the paper is being shut down. I’ve never been a reader of this particular paper, but I have [...]
I just found out today that an article I submitted for publication in January was published! The story is called “Independent bookstores fight for survival”, and can be found in 77 Square, a local arts and entertainment guide in Madison! For all you long-time readers out there, I’ve mentioned this particular story a couple of [...]
My brain finally shifted into school mode this week, which was a welcome change to the lethargy and apathy I’d previously felt. However, I was lazy for so long that I’ve spent the whole week catching up without much time for anything else. Hence, we’ll have an abbreviated edition of Journalism Friday. There were a [...]
