Yesterday, Jobs handed down the Tablet from on high. That’s great. But I think that there is a certain piece of technology that already makes the iPad seem, well, a little lacklustre. Introducing BOOK!

• J.D. Salinger, Dead at 91.

• They say everyone has a book in them. Saying that, the simple truth is that most of us will never see their literary dreams come to fruition due to careers, family and the countless other distractions of everyday life. But with the GFC and all those lay-offs, thousands of corporate types have finally had the chance to put pen to paper – and at last their work is filtering through to bookstores. I present to you: ‘lay-off lit!’

• Lick the back of Tim Winton’s head for… oh, about 55c, I guess.

• Will the iPad change publishing as we know it? Short answer: no.

• I just like this poem.

• Never gets old.

• Psychic writes autobiography fifteen years after her death.

• You remember that long, rambling article about recent trends in sex and fiction? I posted it last week. No? You know, the one with those cool pink diagrams? Still nothing? Geez. Well anyway, here’s the rebuttal to that article.

• Fiction is dead. No really. Super dead.

• And to cap things off, how about a study of boredom? ‘“Bliss — a second-by-¬second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious — lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom,” Wallace wrote in a note left with the manuscript. “Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.”’

Jordan – TheNile.co.nz

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