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TheHappyBooker

  1. Paris Review Unfair To Poets! http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/features/influenceofanxiety/Aug10/index.html
  2. @RosieRebelution you might have to. I just got a ficus and suddenly we're in nom.
  3. oy gevalt--finished everything this weekend and now have nothing to read!
  4. The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis: beautiful but I can't read about her dog dying over and over again. :(
  5. @ThtsWhatSheRead Drudge is slanted. 15,000 extra people showed up. They expected 10,000 (not for Hanson, tho) The promoters are @ fault.
  6. @1000TimesYes<3 <3 <3 --whatever you need, just ask. If I can't help, we'll use "the secret" and ask the universe :)
  7. Lowboy was great. You should all read it.
  8. Had a dream that Alexis Ohanian, Randall Munroe and I were on the Colbert Report taking about the XKCD book http://store.xkcd.com/
  9. OMG, the David Foster Wallace Kenyon College speech (aka "This is water") is up on audible and itunes!
  10. Dorkismo author Maria Bustillos on SITC2 at the awl: http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/the-beautiful-outfit-is-empty
  11. @RosieRebelution I did that to get my cat to stop eating my plants, but he thought it was tasty :/
  12. @raquelita The famous one is Bright Lights Big City, but I don't think he did all he could do with it.
  13. Junot Diaz on the 1999 20 authors under 40: “I had written a book of short stories about Dominicans. ... There was no bump in sales." :)
  14. hate these writers: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/books/03under.html Oh, I mean, yay! No, hate. Congrats to Ferris, Galchen, Tower
  15. @WilliamScurry Knope!
  16. Riicky Powell got heckle by Salvador Dali! #RMMF
  17. my review of the Moby-edited food screed Gristle: http://www.booksquawk.com/2010/04/gristle-from-factory-farms-to-food.html #NBCC
  18. My review of The Dream of Perpetual Motion, http://tinyurl.com/y8f5f65 #nbcc #hipsterbookclub
  19. Reading the 33-1/3 on Doolittle, but haven't learned anything new yet, except how much Charles's caddy cost.
  20. got "sigil" right away in today's NYT x-word!