Does anyone have a good system for reading the internet that doesn’t turn it into a big, imposing hassle come Monday morning? Every week (and sometimes every morning), my RSS feeds number in the thousands. I’ve started re-evaluating whether I need to read all of those blogs in RSS or whether I would more enjoy visiting the sites themselves (for instance, I’ve removed the Morning News, as I really enjoy visiting their site instead), but it doesn’t seem to be enough. Could Twitter replace my RSS reader? I started trying to implement Farhad Manjoo’s system, but it seems too daunting right now. Anyway, suggestions would be welcome. And now, some links:
- Beatrice has, I think, the first of what will be many, many interviews with Emily St. John Mandel, author of the terrific debut novel Last Night in Montreal. You’ll be hearing a great deal about this book in the weeks to come, so you should probably just go ahead and read it now. It’s great. I recommend it, and you can pre-order it here. And if you’re in New York and you’re not Mercantile Library (17 E 47th St) this Wednesday night at 7 p.m. to hear Emily read, you’re crazy…or, you know, busy.
- Here’s an apropos of nothing plug for two sites I enjoy but don’t mention all that often: Three Percent is “a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester.” It’s also frequently a great read on issues relating, in a more general way, to the book business. Identity Theory is a “literary website, sort of.” It features interviews with authors, artists and musicians. Right now they have interviews with Yiyun Li and Monrovia’s finest, Klum.
- Did I mention that we are hosting Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the runaway bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, this Saturday at our store? I did now. No excuses, Pasadena.
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