Welcome, hypothetical reader! Here’s hoping you’re not as tired as I am on this cloudy Friday morning, because I’ve got a one-way ticket to Linksville, and that means you can click some links, and then…come back? I don’t know. Look, I said I was tired.
First: Richard Dreyfuss does a dramatic reading of the iTunes license agreement. Trust me, it’s even funnier than it sounds, and I thought it sounded pretty funny.
A comic about revising a novel. Like a Boolean variable declared as a constant, it’s funny because it’s true.
The Rejectionist, who these days has turned from rejecting to writing, reflects on cynicism and the beauty of storytelling.
I’m linking to this one for sheer chutzpah: Frank Delaney has started a podcast series called Re:Joyce, the goal of which is “deconstructing, examining and illuminating James Joyce’s Ulysses line-by-line, in accessible and entertaining five-minute broadcasts, posted each week on this website. The project is estimated to run a quarter of a century.” I’m not even a fan of Ulysses, but, I mean, damn.
Remember that iPad app about T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” that I told you about last week? Well, it’s totally kicking ass. Readers, a reminder: I am open to receiving gifts of all kinds, such as iPads. It’s not bribery if I don’t do anything in return.
Unpublished authors love to talk about how to get an agent, but there seems to be minimal Internetary discussion of what it’s like to have an agent. As the Intern explains, it’s kind of weird.
And finally: I’ve mentioned before that my fascination with David Foster Wallace borders on the obsessive, so imagine my delight when a new DFW interview surfaced! I was interested to see he shares my view that factory farming is one of the “great unspoken horrors” of modern America. Smart people agreeing with you, what more can you ask on a tired Friday morning?
That’s all there is, lectores. See you Monday. Have a great weekend!
Brian D. Buckley 