Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields One of 2010′s most talked written-about books. For anyone interested in writing and storytelling this might be worth owning and occasionally flipping through for inspiration. A lot of great insights about truth and fiction — and whether either can really exist in pure form — much of which [...]
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This article is amazingly rich… I’m still playing with all the threads. Michael Lewis comes through again — huge (literally, at about 10,000 words) – this time for Vanity Fair with a piece on the economic crisis in Iceland: ”Wall Street on the Tundra.” Highly recommended [via Felix Salmon]: Back away from the Icelandic economy and you can’t help but [...]
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