18-June-08

1. Guardian blog: The government should do more to encourage reading for pleasure - 'schools are places that talk about the world in the kinds of ways that you find in books' - I think I went to a different kind of school.
2. The University of Florida's literary magazine Subtropics, edited by David Leavitt
4. Jacinta Halloran's Dissection
5. The latest Paris Review has a piece by Tim Winton, & on the site you can read a 1996 story, 'The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick' by Elizabeth Gilbert, whose Stern Men (way before Eat Pray Love) was terrific.
6. Ian McEwan and Steven Pinker (whose The Language Instinct is a useful writing tool), thanks to BB
7. The San Francisco Chronicle: Nam Le's long, literary journey
8. Read Alert: arguments over YA classifications, thanks to JNW

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