Anecdotes

From the Writer's Almanac:

* Robert Louis Stevenson was passing by the window of a house one night in France when he looked inside and fell instantly in love with a woman he saw eating dinner with a group of her friends. Stevenson stared at her for what seemed like hours, and then opened the window and leapt inside. The guests were shocked, but Stevenson just bowed and introduced himself.

* When he introduced himself, Plath quoted one of his poems to him, and he guided her to a side room of the bar. She later wrote in her journal, "He kissed me bang smash on the mouth and ripped my hairband off ... and my favorite silver earrings ... I bit him long and hard on the cheek and when we came out of the room, blood was running down his face." They got married four months later.

Submissions.

Four Way Book Poetry Prize.

Kathyrn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

Modern Haiku Submission Guidelines.

Knopf.

Gerald Cable Book Award.

Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Contests.

Walt Whitman Award.

Poetry Society Competitions.

Yale Series of Younger Poets.

Boston Review.

Presses.

Another Sky Press.

Charlie Rose

Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Zadie Smith

On Wallace, Readers as Amateur Musicians

Fail Better, Read Better

Michel Gondry

Bright Lights Film Journal Interview.

Ellen Willis

Hell No, I Won't Go: End the War on Drugs.

Lust Horizons.

NY Times Obit.

Ellen Willis on Wikipedia.

Musicians

Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Say Hi to Your Mom.

Music: Albums

The NPR 100.

Neruda Songs.

San Francisco.

San Francisco wiki.

Mission Pies.

Food

McSweeney's Review of New Food.

Cayenne Pepper. (wiki)

Gnocci. (wiki)

Churro. (wiki)

Cuba

History of Cuba. Wikipedia.

Japanese Folklore

Kitsune. Wikipedia.

Poetry

Paul Verlaine's Chanson D'Automne

William Carlos Williams's mp3 recordings.

Borges: The Craft of Verse Audio CD.

Daniel Gulstein: Merryland.

Betsy Sholl: Bass Line.

Karen Volkman: Sonnet.

Comics

Sandman. Wikipedia.

Endless. Wikipedia.

The Adventures of Tintin. Wikipedia.

Politics

Dec. 18, 2006: Administration Withholding Information

Dec. 31, 2006: Richard Clarke: While You Were At War

Jan. 04, 2007: Can open and read American mail

Jan. 10, 2007: Guantanamo detainee's lawyers post video to YouTube.

Jan. 13, 2007: Pentagon Official Against Guantanamo Lawyers

Jan. 14, 2007: Administration leaving out important details in Iraq.

Feb. 12, 2007: Wes Clark: The Surge Will Backfire

Living American Writers

Edmund White. Bookslut Interview.

Norman Mailer. Interview in the Guardian.

John Crowley. Essay on Crowley. Booklist on Crowley's blog.

Jonathan Lethem. The Ecstasy of Influence.

David Foster Wallace. Commencement Speech at Kenyon University. Center for Book Culture Interview.

Dave Eggers. The Unforbidden is Compulsory.

Watches

Watches.

1.) History of Watches. (BoingBoing)

Painters

Jasper Johns. Wikipedia, Interview.

El Greco. Wikipedia.

Balthus. Wikipedia.

Picasso. Man in a Picasso Suit.

Singers

Billy Murray. Wikipedia, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon.