• Philip Roth, on writing and being ticked off – Los Angeles Times
  I love Philip Roth. He just might be my new Vonnegut.
  (tags: philiproth latimes books writers)
• » Returning an Unrequested Verizon Phone BookThe Deets – Ed Kohler's Blog
  God you just have to love The Deets
  (tags: thedeets phonebooks mnblogs)
• David Foster Wallace: A Personal Tribute : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
  the footnotes in Ed Champion's tribute kind broke my heart
  (tags: davidfosterwallace edchampion tribute writers)
• An Appraisal – Exuberant Riffs on a Land Run Amok – An Appraisal – NYTimes.com
  A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing — in his fiction and nonfiction — about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humor and fervor and verve. At his best he could write funny, write sad, write sardonic and write serious. He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane.
  (tags: davidfosterwallace writers nytimes obits)
• Martin K. Tytell, Typewriter Wizard, Dies at 94 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
  Martin Tytell, whose unmatched knowledge of typewriters was a boon to American spies during World War II, a tool for the defense lawyers for Alger Hiss, and a necessity for literary luminaries and perhaps tens of thousands of everyday scriveners who asked him to keep their Royals, Underwoods, Olivettis (and their computer-resistant pride) intact, died on Thursday in the Bronx. He was 94.
  (tags: typewriter obits nytimes)

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