My next big ebay listing: P4 Desktop computer, supa cheap!

eBay: P4 Desktop 1.5 gHz 768MB RAM no hd (item 170022298116 end time Aug-30-06 13:25:53 PDT)
Perfectly good desktop computer, (no hard drive though) priced to move.

Return to the Shaolin Temple. By Matthew Polly - Slate Magazine

Return to the Shaolin Temple. By Matthew Polly - Slate Magazine
Fascinating series of articles on the Shaolin temple today, the place where Shaolin Kung Fu and Chan (Zen) Buddhism were born.

What’s happening with booksellers?

Another turn of the screw - Books - Times Online

Ron Silliman on the crappy new Pynchon documentary

Silliman on the Pynchon doc

So You Want to Be a Writer

So You Want to Be a Writer

Francine Prose, an acclaimed author and longtime creative writing teacher, opens her essay in the 2006 Fiction issue with a question: “Can writing be taught?” As she sees it, some aspects of writing, such as judicious editing of one’s own work, can be cultivated. But others, particularly the “gift […]

Fiction in its death throws?

Or is it?

The big fear is not bad reviews. It’s no reviews - Books - Times Online

The big fear is not bad reviews. It’s no reviews - Books - Times Online
That is, for writers.

Daily Kos: A Kossack’s Guide to Book Publishing - part 1 [updated]

Daily Kos: A Kossack’s Guide to Book Publishing - part 1 [updated]
Hmm.

Houellebecq Upset

Houellebecq mad over the failure of his novel to be turned into a movie
Um, haven’t the French learned that the film business is absurd yet?

film ick: Terry Gilliam’s Next Film Will Be…

film ick: Terry Gilliam’s Next Film Will Be…
Terry Gilliam to do a biopic of Philip K Dick?