Version 7.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Pedagogy. Linux.

• I am going to catch up on the LBC’s coverage of Matthew Sharpe’s new novel Jamestown. Scott over at Conversational Reading has some links to keep abreast of what is going on elsewhere in regards to the novel. I am going to try to check it out during the fall.

• Ready Steady Blog links to an article about John Barth. The comment section also has some useful links I am looking into.

• Via Grand Text Auto, the new issue of the Iowa Review Web is now online, which was partially guest edited by Stephanie Strickland.

• Daniel at The Reading Experience links to a Vanity Fair article about Arthur Miller. I don’t hold biographical trivia about authors in high regard for the most part, but I am curious to learn more about Miller’s relationship with his son, who has Down’s Syndrome. Miller is in my thoughts a lot lately because I will be reading two of his plays for a class this fall.

After finally getting around to reading The Possibility Of An Island, I came across, via Conversational Reading, this review in The New Republic by James Wood. I don’t necessarily agree with everything Wood says about the novel, or Houellebecq in general, but it is still a very interesting read nonetheless.

Via Conversational Reading, we have this interview from SFGATE.com with one of my favorite authors Michel Houellebecq. I cannot recommend The Elementary Particles any higher; by far the best book I read last year. Remind me to pick up Platform soon.

There is a new bio of William Faulkner out now.

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