19 Oct 2016 Through a "River of Ink" "River of Ink", the debut novel of Brit Paul M.M. Cooper, is a marvel. I'd not heard of the man until he did his Reddit AMA a few months...
31 Jul 2013 How copyright destroys the bookmarket Copyright, in essence, seems like a good thing. But when it comes to books, a new study shows that copyright seems to have drastically curbed availability of books authored during...
28 Aug 2012 The Opening Paragraphs of D.T. Max’s Life of David Foster Wallace It’s almost four years since David Foster Wallace took his own life. Next week, a new, definitive biography by D.T. Max will come out. The Millions has the...
01 Jun 2011 Does reading make you a better person? Reading is a solitary pleasure, but what exactly does it do to you as a human being? Make you better, worse, same? Salon has an article up about the topic...
07 Oct 2009 Amazon Kindle for the rest of the world but not for me So Amazon has announced the availability of their e-book reader Kindle for, among other countries, Germany and Austria. The reader may be pre-ordered on Amazon.com, and will be shipped...
07 May 2008 The Google Trap Went and saw a discussion at the Thalia-bookshop here in Vienna about a new book by an Austrian journalist titled “Die Google Falle” (The Google Trap). Unfortunately, it was the...
12 Dec 2007 Overdue I just found out that three books I thought I’d have to return to the specialty library in a week, will not be due until the 8th of January....
02 Jun 2007 Chuck and Choke I recently finished reading “Choke” by author Chuck Palahniuk. And while I do suspect that Palahniuk’s mind is a scary thing, I liked it almost as much as “Diary”...
14 May 2007 On projects Well, so we didn’t win the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize with the Messages from the Lost Continent. It still was great to be shortlisted. Congratulations to the winners. On...
17 Mar 2007 The Brothers Lionheart When we were young, my parents always made sure we had enough books to read. One of the most read authors back then was Astrid Lindgren, whose books always were...
12 Mar 2007 Oh Rejoice! Fantastic news just won’t quit: Messages from the Lost Continent, the book I helped write under the guidance of the ingenious speaking aardvark Horst has been shortlisted for the...
15 Feb 2007 Introducing the Book Found this on the Thingology weblog. Hilarious! Update: So this one is gone. But fear not, for I have found it on MySpace video as well....
