A link blog, associated with jeffmacintyre.com, addressing recommended reading in art, culture, academia, society and the media. I am a NYC-based freelance journalist and interactive media specialist. My writing appears widely. I also consult in interactive content strategy for leading media companies.
Once in a while—I mean, pretty often actually, if you follow this, and once in a while if you’re just watching it casually—you see writers blow their top at the underground.
Here is Dave Eggers in…
Before we had to ask Brookyn to “shut up” due to an influx of preciousness, Jonathan Safran Foer, and five-dollar organic cookies, poet Walt Whitman lived there—way back in the 1850s. …One of my friends proposed a theory I find compelling: Our cultural consumption exists on a…
Paragraph NY is a Manhattan “work space for writers.” It’s nicer and quieter than your apartment, and don’t worry: “Publication is not required for a membership; only serious intent and a…
Oh, so you can have it both ways! Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) writes in the Wall Street Journal today of his love affair with the…
Valleywag just reported Boing Boing deleted every mention of William Gibson on the site. A list he wrote of “Top 10 Science Fiction Memes of 2006″ is now offline. They no longer link to…