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  1. ... which contains this amusing (though apparently misattributed) point: 'fish' could also be spelled 'ghoti': enou(GH)+w(O)men+lo(TI)on. about 2 hours ago from Twitterrific
  2. Jonah Lehrer's review of the previously mentioned Stanislas Dehaene's book, Reading in the Brain: http://bit.ly/6ZkZJg about 2 hours ago from Twitterrific
  3. An interview with The Maid director Sebastian Silva: http://bit.ly/4SeiTJ about 6 hours ago from Twitterrific
  4. Just saw The Maid. Claustrophobic and upsetting to start, but it develops a kind of mundane joy. Good movie, esp. seen alone. about 6 hours ago from Twitterrific
  5. Stanislad Dehaene on the neuroscience of reading the printed word and 'cortical recycling': http://bit.ly/90sAe6 about 12 hours ago from Twitterrific
  6. Ah, library sales. Total cost for hardbacks of Malamud's Magic Barrel, Gide's Counterfeiters, and Z. Smith's White Teeth: $3. 1:46 PM Nov 21st from Twitterrific
  7. Why is it phil. and crit. are the 1st areas to see prolific ebook piracy? Prohibitive Uni press prices + general geekery of their readers? 5:43 PM Nov 20th from Twitterrific
  8. George Starbuck's "The Spell Against Spelling" http://bit.ly/8hIN4D 'My favorite student lately is the one who wrote about feeling clumbsy.' 5:27 PM Nov 20th from Twitterrific
  9. Volta: One poem in 75 languages. http://bit.ly/8htTsp (via languagehat) 4:45 PM Nov 20th from Twitterrific
  10. Small Worlds: http://bit.ly/2gy2A3 Beautiful. Indie flash games are becoming the trump card for the "Video games can be Art, too" crowd. 5:45 PM Nov 16th from Twitterrific
  11. Interesting to know that Merrill wrote all the answers for the interviews in 'Recitative', even as they seem off-hand and conversational. 2:39 AM Nov 15th from Twitterrific
  12. ... an act of self-purification. The clarity you may arrive at is unforeseeable." - James Merrill, "On Literary Tradition" 2:18 AM Nov 15th from Twitterrific
  13. "My point is that one needn't have any idea what one feels when one starts to write a poem. The poem is, in a way,...' 2:17 AM Nov 15th from Twitterrific
  14. That Carson book looks a beut. RT @NewDirections A preview of our upcoming releases http://tinyurl.com/ycn8ern 1:19 PM Nov 13th from Twitterrific
  15. A blog all about the psychology of fiction feading: http://www.onfiction.ca/ (via @BoingBoing) 1:13 PM Nov 13th from Twitterrific
  16. .@Twitchelmore I've hit the paywall so much this wk I'm abt to subscribe, tho it always let me down in print b4. Is this just a good streak? 2:43 PM Nov 12th from Brizzly in reply to Twitchelmore
  17. I'd forgotten #34 has new Josipovici. Thanks for reminding me! RT @PD_Smith: Download issues of The Reader for free http://bit.ly/3Ja9ke 2:23 PM Nov 12th from Brizzly
  18. @rmprouty I've been enjoying mine. Not having the hardcover is annoying for the first dozen or so pages, but flexibility is nice after that. 2:21 PM Nov 10th from Brizzly in reply to rmprouty
  19. Curious: Asked who else he'd like to play, James Franco says he bought the rights to Hart Crane's The Broken Tower. http://bit.ly/3Pwxb9 2:16 PM Oct 26th from Brizzly
  20. wishes Jstor & the like would make dling whole journal issues possible. Hoarding for my impending loss of access would be much less tedious. 1:42 PM Oct 15th from Brizzly