Wednesday Linkstorm
It's Jegan's bday tomorrow. Happy bday Jegan! Still hate that Powerpoint part in Goon Squad, but happy bday!
My copy of NW came in the mail. Did your copy of NW come in the mail? It's NW week!Here's an essay from The Millions about Bread Loaf. It's the first time I've ever heard it described as "staid, sober, and suffused with Protestant work ethic." Maybe they got it confused with an actual loaf of bread?Ya boy John Jeremiah Sullivan answers reader questions on the Paris Review Daily. The second one is from an obvious spambot named Latitia. If that doesn't sell you I don't know what will.Here's something that sounds like a very dark joke but isn't. The Diary of Anne Frank is being made into an interactive smartphone app. "I got all the apps I need right at my fingertips. Facebook, Bank of America, Google Maps, Anne Frank's Diary...all of them."You heard about that thing with RJ Ellory right? Real quick, he's been writing glowing Amazon reviews of his own books under pseudonyms. E.g. "Whatever else it might do, it will touch your soul." Aha, okay. Well apparently a bunch of other writers have been up to the same kind of shenanigans including Stephen Leather* and John Locke. (You: Nooooo. Not Stephen Leather!). Well now a different bunch of authors you've never heard of made a petition about it on The Telegraph.*Is it just me or does everything sound made up today? I mean, Stephen Leather?Here's a gallery of online literary journals with nice design. WAIT WHAT. Barnstorm didn't make it into this gallery?! But the grey background and the orange text! Did they see the orange text? And the grey background. Yeah, they must have not noticed the grey background, otherwise we'd be on there.Oh hey, look. Barnstorm columnist David Bersell has an essay on this great new travel writing site. Click one million times.Here's a book trailer for The Marriage Plot by balding Mercutio (pictured above) out in paperback. "Young, idealistic, in love with books." K, just died from cringing. Gotta go cause I'm a ghost now.-Erin Somers