Something, probably the cold weather, brought this poem to mind this evening: Nightgown A cold so keen,My speech unfurls tonightAs from the chattering teethOf a sewing machine. Whom words appear to warm,Dear heart, wear mine. Come forthWound in their flimsy whiteAnd give it form. — James Merrill (from Nights and Days, 1966) Not a major […]
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By the way, speaking of knitting: I just joined Ravelry, which is a bit like LibraryThing, only for knitters and crocheters. You use it to keep track of patterns you like, projects you’re working on and the progress you’ve made, yarn in your stash, and whether you really have a set of size 3 double-pointed […]
Well, there went my resolution to blog at intervals over the weekend, but really, I was mostly there for a handful of discussion groups, the chance to schmooze with people in areas I’d like to work in, and the exhibits. (NYRB Editions, you are my favorite booth at every conference.) ALA Midwinter is mostly for […]
I’m sitting in the Convention Center in downtown Philly waiting for the next job-seeker orientation event to start up. Most of what I’m doing today is job-seeker workshops, getting my resume reviewed, and checking out the recruiters; tomorrow and Sunday I’m going to a bunch of Literature in English Section events, the MLA International Bibliography […]
Interesting convergence: On Sunday, NPR’s On the Media did a segment on Gordon Bell’s "lifelogging" project, and the consequences for human memory of keeping a digital record of everything one does. Interestingly, Clive Thompson, the second interviewee in the segment, mentioned both the potential for catastrophic loss of data (if your hard drive is your […]
Lately I’ve been hearing about one of the disadvantages of commercial e-books (specifically, the kind sold by vendors like NetLibrary or Ebrary): you can’t lend them from one library to another. Dead-tree-based books can be ILL’d and shared among library consortia, but you can’t ship an e-book when it comes with restrictions about which users […]
I’m going to New York in a couple of weeks! My friend R. and I have plans to see Beckett’s Happy Days at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, starring the magnificent Fiona Shaw. I haven’t been to New York in way too long. Very excited. Will post a review afterwards.
I’ve just started using Twitter. Check out the "Twitter updates" widget on the right-hand side of this page — and, if you’re using it too, feel free to tweet at me! Does anyone else picture Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine every time they contemplate Twitter?
Hey, those of you who went to MLA this year, a query: Did any of you go to the "Literary Geospaces" panel? How was it? And who was it who was talking about "memory mapping," as the Chronicle bloggers report? I do rather wish I’d been there for the various Association for Computing in the […]
Last week I brought home a prodigiously large butternut squash from the Fair Food Farmstand. I had in mind a recipe for squash in a spicy yogurt sauce from Bharti Kirchner’s The Healthy Cuisine of India. So earlier this week I de-skinned, de-seeded, and cubed the squash; I needed four cups of it for the […]