Fake medical treatment

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May 152010
 

Fake med­ical treat­ment can work amaz­ingly well. (Link)

May 132010
 

8,000-page Philip K. Dick man­u­script to be pub­lished and edited by Jonathan Lethem (via @ScottE­s­pos­ito)

May 132010
 

The Guardian’s roundup of the Best Children’s Books ever. (via @nilan­ja­naroy )

 

How the 500 euro note became the denom­i­na­tion of choice for crim­i­nal gangs (via @BBC_magazine )

 

Great NYRB review of Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask.

May 112010
 

Pico Iyer on Jan Mor­ris and VS Naipaul.

 

Why would man pur­su­ing U.S. cit­i­zen­ship for 10 yrs sud­denly decide to com­mit ter­ror­ism? Link. (via @ultra­brown)

Joseph Pulitzer Profile

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May 012010
 

(Very Read­able) Joseph Pulitzer pro­file. http://tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/29662/no-prize/

A A$20000 typo

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May 012010
 

A A$20000 typo that called for “fresh ground black peo­ple” instead of “pep­per.” http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=14590 (via BookNinja)

May 012010
 

The men that make Obama funny.

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