http://bookishlove.net Loving books in Brooklyn... and leaves and apples in Queens, etc Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:20:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This site, having suffered obvious neglect for several months now, has merged with Brooklyn Heathen, where literary topics will be discussed from here on. http://bookishlove.net/200708/a-new-home/ We'll be back REAL SOON. http://bookishlove.net/200705/we-are-away/ From Yahoo: Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key influence in shaping 20th-century American literature, died Wednesday at 84. He suffered brain injuries after a recent fall at his Manhattan home, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz. Men's restroom at Moe's bar, Brookyln 2005 | Photo: Kenn Christ http://bookishlove.net/200704/vonnegut-dies-at-84/ Apr 24-29, 2007. Tickets on sale now. http://bookishlove.net/200703/pen-2007-festival/ For the first time since the 1997 Booker-Prize winner God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy has announced plans for a new novel. http://bookishlove.net/200702/return-to-fiction/ Interview with wife of cartoonist Robert Crumb. http://bookishlove.net/200702/aline-kominsky-crumb-tells-all/ The 12th major library system to scan books for Google's ambitious project to make books searchable online. (ps. we will be updating our listing of literary events soon) http://bookishlove.net/200702/princeton-joins-google-books/ PEN has issued a statement on the murder of the Armenian-Turkish journalist. http://bookishlove.net/200701/on-the-murder-of-hrant-dink/ New issue of Typo 9 can be viewed online. http://bookishlove.net/200701/type-9-is-out-2/ The fourth issue is fully available as an online edition. http://bookishlove.net/200701/free-issue-of-small-spiral-notebook/