Amazing links, wonderful links, sausage links, links und rechts

I was searching for the image of a cover of An introduction to American literature by Borges (didn't find it), and noticed in the mess a photo of a young and surprisingly handsome Louis Aragon, and clicked on it, thinking maybe to save it for some "Good Looking Poets" folder, and so I found wood s lot; specifically this page, and it's splendid, start to finish!

For better or worse, wood s lot called from memory. . .

PARTEEEEE!

Well, goodness. That site is even better than I thought.

I didn't need to remember that film :)

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Is that "Antichrist"? I never had the guts to watch it.

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And by the way, Rest in Peace, George Tooker.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/opinion/07thu4.html

(don't know if the link will click through, since the chintzy NYTimes has, to my understanding, limited access for non-subscribers.)

Maki yes (to Antichrist).

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Looks a great painting indeed. Well, glad he had a long life.

And thank you, NY Times, for letting me know I have 4 out of my 20 free articles left...

Use them wisely, Lola...

Oh, YEAH, they are all reserved for David Brooks!

I get it - that's where the "sausage links" come in....

>6 Makifat: Lola,

Does anyone know how well the recently implemented NY Times subscription service is doing. I found the price rather extreme, particularly since I have to pay for the device on which it is delivered and the internet service for accessing it. I am curious to see if the NY Times will stick to the same pricing schedule.

It can't be popular. We get it because we receive the Sunday Times.

Tennessee pays for a database for all Tennessee residents that allows one to access a number of papers for free. One gets one's NY Times news a day late.

I was wondering about that myself, Mary. I think I saw somewhere a number of 100,000 paying online subscribers--but that could be on the site itself (so perhaps UNTRUE?!)

I stopped being a regular reader since leaving NYC (and to think they did away with the Monday city section!) and don't feel the compulsion to subscribe at all. Occasionally I'll buy Friday or Saturday for the Arts and the crossword, but there's other places for news.

And the opinions of the NY Times have long now left me cold or unpleasantly hot.

I rely more on other news sources. The NY Times has increasingly become to infotainment related for me.

It's around $15 per month, which isn't extravagantly expensive. I paid for it even though I have free access via work (as I'm still wedded to the old fashioned idea that intellectual labor should be renumerated).

I paid for it even though I have free access via work

Ooooh, I should stick this in The Miracle Thread! :)

(Um, no personal reflection, strictly a comment on the mores of the tempora!)

Maybe the self-defeating idealist thread would be better! After all, I'm renumerating Brooks (and perhaps Stanley Fish).

10 Oh, YEAH, they are all reserved for David Brooks!

Um...ow. I just snorted red wine through my nose. That smarts, you know.

I think the NYT links can be accessed if they are linked through from elsewhere (for example a blog or a friend's Facebook post). I haven't had any trouble clicking through from linked posts anyway. Of course, as rarely as I read the NYT, it may just be that I have some ridiculous number of unlimited access points compiled or something (how do you tell how many posts you have left, anyway?)

Oh, and the thought of in any way "remunerating" Brooks or Fish, Ross Douthat or Maureen Dowd, makes me cry :-(

10 Oh, YEAH, they are all reserved for David Brooks!

Hey, what about Tom Friedman? Matt Taibbi describes him thus:

"It's not that he occasionally screws up and fails to make his metaphors and images agree. It's that he always screws it up. He has an anti-ear, and it's absolutely infallible; he is a Joyce or a Flaubert in reverse, incapable of rendering even the smallest details without genius. The difference between Friedman and an ordinary bad writer is that an ordinary bad writer will, say, call some businessman a shark and have him say some tired, uninspired piece of dialogue: Friedman will have him spout it. And that's guaranteed, every single time. He never misses."

The article is one of the funnier take-downs I've read. The whole thing is here: http://delong.typepad.com/egregious_moderation/2009/01/matt-taibbi-flathead-the-...

This looks like a good site:

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/

Anyone come across this before?

Yes - and recently, in fact, while looking for an image to post here. The blogger is an illustrator too.

Here's a site that I subscribe to: http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/.

Very interesting, both!

And--I know, it's an obsession--just look at the book covers in this post about Philippe Jullian (The Dreamers of Decadence being the least fine, IMO):

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/12/13/philippe-jullian-connoisseur-...

A bibliophile blog in French--but lots of pictures, and a motto from Nodier:

"After the pleasure of possessing books, none is sweeter than talking about them."

Le Blog du Bibliophile, des Bibliophiles, de la Bibliophilie et des Livres Anciens

Stumbled across it when I was looking up covers for Le roman bourgeois, 1666, (A bourgeois novel? An urban story? Once upon time, there was a burgher...?) by Antoine Furetière, lexicographer, acid-tongued cynic, troublemaker (got expelled from the Academy, quarrelled fatally even with old friends, such as La Fontaine...)

The book is peculiar--an every-rule-breaking parody of the "heroic" novel, dealing for the first time ever with the ugly middle classes instead of beautiful aristocrats, it also breaks the mould for the literary genre of novel, featuring Sterne-like (except way before Sterne) pastiche, interruptions of plot, mini-disquisitions on various topics, including ball games and wigs, satire à clef and whatnot. Moreover, the reader is addressed throughout, in an amusingly offhand-to-rude tone--"another writer would now insert here a long description of this church peppered with architectural terms culled from Vitruvius, but I'm telling you simply to haul ass to the square Maubert and stare at it, if such is your pleasure" (paraphrase all mine), and Furetière is constantly criticising everything in his own voice--his characters, other writers, the reader, the times.

Some pictures of an early edition of the book

Interesting links, for those who read French :

http://leblogduvisagevert.wordpress.com/
http://levisagevert.com/

Wow, Myriades, thanks, merci, lovely links. Love the Odilon Redon post (and wish I could see them at the exhibition...)

Funny, I was JUST thinking of Meyrink (Visage vert=Green face), of how I'd write up some satirical stories of his I read recently.

Lots of fun for fans of illustration:

Curious Pages: Recommended Inappropriate Books for Kids

How I found it: googling a cover for Arthur Tress' The teapot opera

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I've actually visited this site quite a few times. My children and I are big fans of "inappropriate" books. Gales of laughter will tell you that we are revisiting (with our own special commentary) a book by cranky Munro Leaf, an author whose out and out loathing of children seems to shine brightly through most of his childrens books.

Munro Leaf--do not know the name. It's the illustration and other art that interest me primarily in children's books. One of the few outlets left. At least one expects that there'll be books with original art as long as children are being born.

I recently looked over a batch of first editions going off to an auction, Randolph Caldecott's books mostly. I had the time to read through one and, speaking of inappropriate, was vastly amused by the story of The babes in the wood. Poor babes--their evil uncle sends them off to be killed by a pair of mercenaries, one of whom takes pity on them and releases them, and then... they wander in the woods and eventually die.

Kudos for realism, but I wonder if this is still getting reprinted for children's consumption? The other pieces in the collection were John Gilpin (speeding on a horse) and The house that Jack built.

50watts

That's only one of Will Schofield's marvellous blogs dedicated to obscure literature and book design--there's a list under "About". (Will also has an LT account but it's been dormant for a while.)

One of several recent posts about children's books and illustration in Poland:

Children’s Books in Poland: The 1970s

Where do you find them treasures, Will?!

And on Tumblr: Writers No One Reads

"50 Watts" is a successor to the blog ""A Journey Round My Skull" !

Yes!

I live in hope he'll start adding to his library again.

Will's blog is amazing. I'm proud to be listed (undeserving as I may be) on his very long blogroll.

Now that's a fine honour!