Required Reading: “Zach Braff, Luxury Goods, Dressing like one of your Characters” Smokler on November 10, 2009 Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music — PopMatters Hilarious! (tags: music culture indierock bordem zachbraff indie) Rebecca Skloot's immortal BookTour reinvents the form – Publishers Weekly Well done! (tags: books publishing booktour socialnetworks howto promotion marketing) How Luxury Will Survive after the recession: The Big Money via Murketing.com (tags: business consumption luxury consumerism asia) How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tell – WSJ.com Article's been written 1000 times but still fun to read (via The Elegant Variation) (tags: books literature writing writers authors creativity process)
Required Reading: “Monty Python, Old Growth, and Gender Blindness” Smokler on October 13, 2009 Secret features of Google Reader via Micropersuasion (tags: google googlereader text rss articles reading) Rock climbing is the only truly gender-blind sport: Double X (tags: sports gender rockclimbing athletics) What will our lousy economy do to the generation just entering the workforce? Business Week Scary. (via Give Me Something to Read) (tags: economics recession unemployment work future generations) Christopher Hitchens on Monty Python's 40th Anniversary: Vanity Fair (tags: montypython anniversary comedy british uk christopherhitchens) Pitchfork: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 20-1 via Subtraction.com (tags: music 2000s list lists albums pitchfork) Stephen Johnson on Old Growth Media A must read…. (tags: business media journalism newspapers trends onlinejournalism future) The grim present and hopeful future of the Literary Journal: Times UK via AL Daily (tags: journals literaryjournal publishing writing literature future trends)