David Mamet has lost his fucking mind like a fucking child. Sorry, that was my Mamet impression. He's gone all climate change doesn't exist and big government is bad; one would think that he's got a poster with a misspelled rant and a racist caricature of Obama on it. (Financial Times, via Metafilter)
NYRB prints a 2006 interview with David Foster Wallace entitled "A Frightening Time in America." Lot of it has to do with what he describes as an age of extreme cynicism in the U.S. and Europe, with nations of people believing that all is a performance. Moreover, in the U.S. the celebration of wealth and the act of acquiring it has become the dominating principle, which hey, isn't news, but Christ almighty think back a hundred years where people were talkin' about how money is the root of all evil and all that good shit. (Metafilter).
Oh God, now I really want one of those stupid fucking things: the British Library has made 1,000 titles out of its 19th Century Collection available as an ipad app. (Teleread)
Metafilter's Daily Alice does a nice-round up of the WSJ article that described today's YA offerings as horrifying and should therefore be pissed on and buried, I guess, and the responses from YA writers that are kind of like, "Have you ever been a teenager? 'Cause now that shit, that shit's horrifying."
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