Uit de feedreader [2]
Elke laatste dag van de maand het beste uit de feedreader van Achille van den Branden. Een uitvoerige collectie links die ik overal bij de hand wil hebben, zonder dat speciaal naar originaliteit gestreefd wordt. Spielerei en achtergrondartikels broederlijk onder elkaar; zoals ik het graag heb.
> Secondhand wonderland: the world of the used book
> The internet and its discontents — essay by Michael Pastore
> The reign of thuggery - The current crisis in Zimbabwe
> Topologies by Edgar Martins [fotografie]
> Traditional architecture - Roger Scruton
> Music and the internet
> Iran: The threat
> The familiar image of Giacomo Casanova as a libertine and sexual adventurer is due to undergo a revision
> The cosmic drama, as seen from a vantage in space
> Who killed science fiction? - Earl Kemp
> The myth of multitasking
> Stopping Google
> The best rock music critics
> Zadie Smith on 'Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay' by Louis Begley
> Nobody's a critic
> A.S. Byatt on Euro 2008
> The new generation of Argentine writers
> Why do we remain so fascinated by the memoir?
> The life of Norman Lewis
> What does it mean to be human?
> Maugham's criteria for what constitutes a good novel
> The neuroscience of illusion
> The big list of bookish social networks
> Melville House's 'Art of the Novella' series
> Are book reviewers out of print?
> What's the optimal number of book reviews?
> Wordspy - subject index
> The best science book ever written?
> Feminism and literary criticism
> Article length online versus on paper
> Why paper is eternal [.pdf]
> Michael Dirda on 'The delighted states'
> The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue - An intellectual history
> The man behind Woody Allen
> How to nap
> Why I hate second-hand books
> How the mind works [7 book reviews]
> The problem with using scientists' words to support religious beliefs
> Paul Otlet - L'homme qui voulait classer le monde
> Paul Otlet [in The New York Times]
> The Mike Wallace interviews
> The battle of the book: the research library today
> Muzieklijstjes.nl
> A blog about pens
> The art of sharpening pencils
> IGI illustrator PJ Lynch takes us step-by-step through the creation of the cover of his latest book
> Czech book covers of the 1920s and 1930s
> 100 musical accompaniments to 100 worldwide wetspots
> The literary and political catholicism of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
> Merlyn op dbnl.nl
> Web 2.0 as an active alternative to passive traditional media
> Two interviews with Raymond Carver
> Citaten uit het werk van Koen Peeters
> J.G. Ballard talks to James Campbell
> Can a night owl become a morning person?
> The strange allure of making your own fonts
> The origins of CAPTCHA
> The best soccer web sites and books to read during the Euro 2008 tournament
> What the Olympics reveal, and conceal, about China
> 5 ways to spot a fake photo
> 'The happening': a spoiler-laden list of its most laughably terrible parts
> A fawning, self-conscious encounter with Scarlett Johansson
> Becoming immortal
> Writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions
> Eight writers reflect on the very special man in their life [fathers]
> What drives 'real' authors to ghostwrite bestsellers?
> Kafka imagining 'Amerika'
> The literary estate uses the letter of copyright to disadvantage the scholarly work of editors
> The library at night - Alberto Manguel [excerpts]
> Technological determinism makes you stupid (not Google)
> Lives of the naturalists
> How we read online
> Interview met Paul Verhaeghen [The Book Depository]
> What's wrong with the world - G.K. Chesterton
> The ultimate literary portrait - review of Boswell's painterly masterpiece
> Nearing 90 - by William Maxwell
> 125 sarcastic quotes
> Where to get the latest and greatest design books
> 10 free web-based alternatives to photoshop
> Ischa Meijers radio interviews digitaal beschikbaar
> Theory: elegant and insightful [Amazon Listmania]
> Forgotten photography [Amazon Listmania]
> Industrial archaeology and urban exploration [Amazon Listmania]
> Modern ruins [Amazon Listmania]
> Hypergrafie : L’impérieuse contrainte à écrire
> Nicholson Baker on his advanced Wikipedia dependency
> Interview met 'book artist' Nicholas Jones
> BBC topics [portal]
> People reading [art exhibit]
> Amélie Nothomb at The complete review
> Life: a user’s manual - Georges Perec [review]
> The history of eBay
> Library photographs by Candida Höfer
> The book art of Robert The, Cara Barer, and Jacqueline Rush Lee
> Barbara Krasner-Khait checks out the history of the library
> Why so little science fiction rises to the standards of literary fiction
> 100 useful niche search engines you've never heard of
> The hidden Hitchens
> Enjoying popular culture is necessarily a social experience
> Austrian literature - Eurozine
> Hungarian literature - Eurozine
> 100 SF/F books to read before you die
> Does the Google generation lack the independence of thought?
> Vanity Fair's Proust questionnaire
> Writers' rooms: Roald Dahl
> Google, digitization and archives: despatches from if:book
> Kimbooktu's books on books in Dutch [librarything]
> 'Metropolis' : the mother of the science fiction film genre
> Book decor: specializing in designer leather-bound books
> Obits Kees Fens - verzameld door De papieren man
> The data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete
> Before you write a memoir, make sure your life hasn't already been lived
> Why don't we want independent writers?
> The history of the semicolon
> Should we care about book reviews?
> The rise of fan fiction and comic book culture
> Scott Hamilton watched and reviewed 100 movies in 100 days
> The future of copyright
> The Library of America series
> Get ready to rethink what it means to be green
> Explaining movements in popular music
> Why are believers and atheists still bickering?
> Parents watching over their tech-obsessed teenagers
> The future of the environment
> The dark side of literacy
> British doctors prescribe "bibliotherapy" for the stressed-out and depressed
> John Banville on Georges Simenon
> Weblogs: a history and perspective [written in september 2000]
> Staying smart in dumbed-down times
> Found in books
> The wisdom of engineers
> The journalism of Karl Kraus
> The ethics of climate change
> Why are some people smarter than others?
> The frontal assault on religion by Richard Dawkins
> 100 best characters in fiction since 1900
> Portret van Martin Bril [Vrij Nederland, 2006]
> The elusive master of allusion [on Ezra Pound]
> Persephone Books reprints forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers
> The story of the kamasutra
> The work of H. H. Munro
> Afghanistan's hidden antiquities
> How to unleash your creativity
> The charges levelled against games are based on an outdated understanding of what gamers do when they sit down to play
> The question of global warming - Freeman Dyson
> Fiction and political fact
> Most texts which accompany contemporary art production are so twisted and woolly that they could easily pass for self-parody
> A history of histories
> The man who invented Borges
> Writing the 'quintessential' book review
> Why NATO troops can't deliver peace in Afghanistan
> The Book Review asked a handful of writers to recommend books for the presidential candidates
> This year’s travel books [NY Times]
> The book collection that devoured my life - Luc Sante
> Favorite books of 2007 - Alberto Manguel [.pdf]
> Where is the great literature of the 70s?
> Booksellers' selections for summer afternoons
> Writers pick their favorite obscure books
> Reading jumbo lit [vuistdikke boeken]
> A glossary of rhetorical terms, with examples
> The Atlantic Monthly has helpfully indexed literary interviews from its archives
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Op internet is nauwelijks iets substantieels te vinden over de Engelse auteur Clive Sinclair (°1948), laat staan over deze bundel. Alsof niemand ooit enthousiast is geworden over een van zijn boeken.

Bewaarder van oudheden is een boek voor iedereen (mezelf incluis) die Kazachstan met weinig meer associeert dan met Vinokoerov, Astana en winning van fossiele brandstoffen.












V.S. Naipaul is een schrijver die mij afschrikt. Niet omdat het zo'n 