Bagatelle: writing links
le 16, juin 2008
- Magcloud
- Derek Powazek introduces Magcloud, a new “publish your own magazine” service. Very cool.
le 13, mars 2008
- Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s by Paul Ford
- Too much music for one person.
le 2, septembre 2007
- The Author Will Take Q.’s Now
- NYTimes article on virtual book tours containing a hat tip to my man Smokler. Cool!
le 11, mai 2007
- Annals of Communications: Critical Mass
- Entertaining piece on Wall Street Journal tech writer Walter Mossberg.
le 24, avril 2007
- 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
- “Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’”
le 23, mars 2007
- Hungry for the Truth: An Interview With Michael Pollan
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma author muses on food, organics, and other nutritional topics.
le 21, janvier 2007
- Writing application Scrivener 1.0 released
- I’ve been demoing the beta and it’s quite nice. The organizational features alone are pretty worthy.
le 26, décembre 2006
- Slate compiles the best of the best-of lists
le 18, décembre 2006
- Blog-Media Clichés
- Best evah. Um, seriously? Oh, snap! This made my eyes bleed and I think I threw up a little.
le 16, décembre 2006
- Journalist criticizes Michael Crichton, Crichton depicts journalist as child rapist
- Hard to summarize in a headline, but either way Crichton comes out looking like a grade A asshat.
le 14, décembre 2006
- To Help You Fucking Matter
- Steve Champeon remembers Leslie Harpold
le 12, novembre 2006
- Open Your Clouded Gaze
- Beautiful guest post by The Weakerthans John K. Samson on “this suicide season”
le 13, octobre 2006
- Curt Cloninger’s Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process released
- I saw Curt’s presentation on this topic at SXSW 2005 and it was great - the book is probably even better
le 27, août 2006
- Toronto, by Pasha Malla
- “So what follows, I guess, is a sort of anti-Spacing article.”
le 29, mai 2006
- Do bookstores have a future?
- Interesting article on the future of bookstores (via)
le 13, mai 2006
- A-Z of alternative words
- As the saying goes, never use a complex word where a simple one will do.
le 10, mai 2006
- Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!
- YES.
- A Food Crusader’s Alarm Is Supersized
- Article on Eric Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness, via)
le 26, avril 2006
- Zeldman remembers his mom
- Heavy with poignancy and a son’s love
le 28, mars 2006
- Heather Armstrong on Big Love and Mormonism
- There’s a reason why Heather is one of the few bloggers that have broken out into the mainstream, and awesome writing like this is why.
le 27, mars 2006
- Up With Grups - The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood
- I see myself (and most of my friends) in this article. It’s rather frightening and fascinating at the same time.
le 5, février 2006
- Scenes From Lord of the Rings That Might Have Been Used as Setups for Bad Commercials Had the Filmmakers Not Respected the Material
- Damn, that’s kinda funny.
le 3, décembre 2005
- Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good
- This was one of my favourite parts of Fast Food Nation
le 29, novembre 2005
- 100 Notable Books of the Year
- And how many of these have I read? Maybe 4. I suck.
le 20, novembre 2005
- Mid-stream & horseless
- Gail Armstrong on a life away from home.
le 29, octobre 2005
- Rejected Bond Girls.
- “Pussy Notsomuch”
le 26, octobre 2005
- Attack of the Zombie Copy
- How to write energetic copy so good it wakes the dead
le 14, octobre 2005
- I Am Gary Benchley, by Paul Ford
- How did I miss this? He’s one of my favourite web writers
- Gary Benchley, Rock Star, a novel by Paul Ford
- I had no idea he was writing a novel. Must Buy Now.
le 13, octobre 2005
- Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam
- (via)
le 11, octobre 2005
- Irish writer Banville wins Booker prize
- Third chance for Julian Barnes but he was edged out by Banville, a surprise winner
le 9, octobre 2005
- A Cubicle for You and Your Muse
- great article on Paragraph (run by Khoi Vihn’s girlfriend)
le 24, septembre 2005
- Lesser-Known Editing and Proofreading Marks
- “please don’t eat Pringles while you work”
- Lesser-Known Editing and Proofreading Marks
- “please don’t eat Pringles while you work”
le 22, septembre 2005
- Raymond Carver on the short story
- “Get in, get out. Don’t linger. Go on.”
le 20, septembre 2005
- John Rock’s Error
- Malcolm Gladwell on one of the inventors of the Pill
- Kevin Fanning releases Fever Dream Ghost Book - just $3.19!
- Kevin’s writing is staggeringly beautiful and bizarre. It’s a crime he doesn’t have people showering him with money. Buy it!
le 19, septembre 2005
- 43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages
- and folks, please spellcheck.
le 17, septembre 2005
- I Can Never Recall the Name of Brooklyn’s New Hip Band
- is it “Yes, I’m Clapping, OK?”
le 16, septembre 2005
- Dr. Grammar - Frequently Asked Questions
- might need this (via)
le 9, septembre 2005
- Conversational writing kicks formal writing’s ass
- this is very hard to do well, but I’m trying
le 22, août 2005
- Klingon Fairy Tales
- “The Hare Foolishly Lowers His Guard and Is Devastated by the Tortoise, Whose Prowess in Battle Attracts Many Desirable Mates”
le 4, août 2005
- Obscenities Uttered by Jesus Christ
- ha! good one.
le 28, juillet 2005
- Panic Software’s Steven Frank on the fear of flying
- I know, the irony of their name isn’t lost on me. But I empathize with this 100%.
le 27, juillet 2005
- The USA according to my racist aunt
- this guy’s writing is incredible, so poke around while you’re there
le 23, juillet 2005
- Types of Stories My Mother Tells
- i can’t wait to get old and do this to my kids what am I saying?!
le 20, juillet 2005
- The New Yorker on Roald Dahl
- Debunking the blurbs you see in advertising
- it’s all in the context
le 12, juin 2005
- Stories from an ESL teacher in Japan
- “Even the sweetest little girl may be prone to jam her fingers up your ass the second you turn around.”
le 11, juin 2005
- Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
- don’t miss the previous 49 tips linked at the bottom
le 20, mai 2005
- Interview with whygodwhy’s Kevin Fanning
- I love this guy’s writing
le 12, mai 2005
- Malcolm Gladwell reviews Everything Bad is Good For You
le 5, mai 2005
- Does Your English Cut the Mustard?
- I love quizzes
le 24, avril 2005
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- read the entire book online, if you can handle the eyestrain
le 23, avril 2005
- Book Sales as a Technology Trend Indicator
- Book sales are up, especially for OS X titles. Good news for me, I hope…
le 4, avril 2005
- The Thumb-sized Heart of TK the Cat
- A sad story about Paul’s cat
- Letters from Rome: Mourning
- quietly sublime account of Rome during the last days of the Pope
le 25, février 2005
- My Dinner at Applebee’s With White Supremacists
- “Asians, No. Caeaser Salad, Yes!”
le 23, février 2005
- Onion interview with Dave Eggers
le 21, février 2005
- Writer Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide
- holy crap. What a tragedy.
le 15, février 2005
- Nerve.com interviews Malcolm Gladwell
- I missed him speak here due to a broken heart (literally)
le 7, février 2005
- Malcolm Gladwell on the Super Bowl
le 22, janvier 2005
- Paul Ford’s Three Favorite Computer Games of 2004
- Will Oldman’s Adventure kicks ass, but I get creamed by P.J. Harvey every time
le 21, janvier 2005
- What You’ll Wish You’d Known
- I don’t know - I was inspired.
- Do You Speak American
le 20, janvier 2005
- Tips for computer book authors
le 19, janvier 2005
- Planes, Trains, and Plantains (The story of Oedipus)
- “Imagine your [sic] like jamming your mom..”
le 17, janvier 2005
- J. D. Salinger. Uncollected Writings
- amazing collection of one of my favourite writers’ work
le 16, janvier 2005
- Massive Layoffs at O’Reilly Books?
- oh, man, if this is true, it will be very, very sad
le 31, décembre 2004
- Banished words for 2005
- I would like to add: “friggin”. Please stop.
le 20, décembre 2004
- Fast Company article on Malcolm Gladwell
- (via)
le 7, décembre 2004
- big list of, er, best of 2004 lists
le 6, décembre 2004
- Economist’s Books of the year 2004
le 3, décembre 2004
- William Safire on kid slang
- an old man translates for the rest of us
le 23, novembre 2004
- David Sedaris on group sex and relationships
- (yet again)
- Amazon’s best 50 books of 2004
- unleash the flurry of “best of” lists
le 16, novembre 2004
- Malcolm Gladwell on Plagarism
- More great stuff from the author of the Tipping Point
le 16, septembre 2004
- A Story About Someone Else’s Ass
- poop.
le 11, août 2004
- Poynter Online - Fifty Writing Tools
- awesome
le 8, août 2004
- Book extract: How To Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
- note to self
le 5, août 2004
- Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do) (so I don’t forget)
le 4, août 2004
- The Morning News - Since She Died: moving testimonial from TMN
le 1, août 2004
- The Naked Face: this is new to me
le 30, juillet 2004
- Is it illegal to write a novel about killing the President?
le 27, juillet 2004
- New Chipp Kidd book “The Learners”: read Chapter 1
le 9, juillet 2004
- “You need boners. We need money”
le 28, juin 2004
- 10 most untranslatable words: poppycock!
le 18, avril 2004
- Terror has a new Commander-in-Chief
le 14, avril 2004
- making leta: I hurt myself laughing
le 6, avril 2004
- Spec Simpsons Script: Lard Country, Act One: Very funny!
le 12, mars 2004
- Remembering Spalding
le 10, mars 2004
- The Terrazzo Jungle: Malcolm “Tipping Point” Gladwell on Malls
le 7, mars 2004
- What Newspapers and Their Web Sites Must Do to Survive
le 26, janvier 2004
- 5ives (top fives that make me guffaw)
le 25, janvier 2004
- The Morning News - The Non-Expert: IKEA
le 21, janvier 2004
- Just Write: The Straight Story
le 13, janvier 2004
- 100 Most Often Misspelled Words
le 18, décembre 2003
- Unlikely stories of 2003: trash journalism at its best
le 15, décembre 2003
- Let it Snow: David Sedaris
le 8, décembre 2003
- What Not to Do When You Blog
le 24, octobre 2003
- The 101 Best Websites for Writers
le 7, octobre 2003
- Esquire Magazine: Five of the greatest stories ever told
le 15, août 2003
- Don’t Look It Up!: the decline of the modern dictionary
le 7, août 2003
- Do Not Move To Canada: all the same, all of you would be welcome with open arms. Really.
le 29, juillet 2003
- Seven deadly sins of web writing
le 25, juillet 2003
- What th - Paul Martin has a weblog?
le 17, juillet 2003
- Acclaimed Winnipegger author Carol Shields, gone at 68
le 17, juin 2003
- The Knowledge for Thirst: I’m embarrassed by my obsession with Fresca.
- Paul Ford: Software Story: Someone give this man a book contract, posthaste.
le 13, juin 2003
- Our Perfect Summer: New words from David Sedaris
le 12, juin 2003
- Branded for Life
le 7, juin 2003
- Bling-Bling gets its props from the OED thugz
