Bookmarks - Quick links
Some book-related links:
- Norma Gabler, the Texas textbook nitpicker who spent most of her life seeking out factual errors and “left-wing bias” in schoolbooks, is dead at 84. (Los Angeles Times)
- Kerouac’s On the Road – uncut and republished. (The Independent)
- Russia goes big on book advertising. (Moscow Times)
- Norman Mailer: Mr. Television. (Slate)
- The book every soldier in Iraq should read. (Harper’s)
From the Kerouac article: “Fuelled by coffee, Kerouac produced the text in a frenzied burst of creative activity.”
Yeah, right.
Unless they were putting speed IN coffee in the early fifties.
Which isn’t such a bad idea, now that I think about it.