"Writers should work alone. They should see each other only after their work is done, and not too often then. Otherwise they become like the writers in New York."
The Atlantic Wire notes today that Barnes & Noble’s “floorplan changes will lead to fewer books in its bookstores.”
From The Guardian: Philip Connors worked for several years at the Wall Street Journal. In 2002, he left the paper for a seasonal job with the US Forest Service in New Mexico, where he has worked 10 summers as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest. Here are his top 10 wilderness books.
Alma Guillermoprieto has an eye-opening essay in the New York Review of Books looking at the Mexican drug violence: Day of the 40,000 dead.
Hey, let’s hear it for my Norse ancestors! We may be plundering brutes, but we don’t get lost. How was it possible for Vikings to navigate their ships in heavy fog? From Discovery.
Don’t tell my boy, but video gaming may make kids more creative.
And finally, to help you get started on your Christmas list, for the woman who has everything:
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