Artist Stefanie Posavec has analyzed Jack Kerouac's On the Road, breaking it down by theme, by sentence length, and other such metrics. Then she has graphed the information. The results make for compelling viewing--at least as good as the book, for my money. Click on the images below to see more examples and to read … Continue reading On the Road Exploded
Author: Anders
Palahniuk TV
Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke, will be in town to read from his new novel Snuff on May 21. (Details are here.) You can get a sneak preview of the author in the YouTube clip below.With thanks to Switchblade Comb--David E
Hear, Hear
The New York Public Library has made its audio programs--lectures, video interviews, and podcasts--available to iTunes listeners everywhere. It's quite an impressive list, too. You can hear from Orhan Pamuk, Azar Nafisi, Miranda July, Christopher Hitchens (debating God is Not Great with Al Sharpton), Daniel Mendelsohn, and many, many more. See the NYPL's offerings on … Continue reading Hear, Hear
Musings from Magers and Quinn 