D is for depravity
Poor Darwin: Vise or Vice?
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Tags: animals, beards, cats, d-list, Friday, non-publications, publications, today's youth
My Life and Thoughts
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories." Mario Vargas Llosa
October 20th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Oh Depravity-list writer, my cat Henri does this all the time. Little did I know this behavior was a mark of decadence. Go her.
And beware! I foresee an influx of very interesting young hipster readers for this blog. Now that you’ve linked Vice like, five times.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
P.S. I didn’t mean to imply anything about young hipster readers. Moreover, watch out for comment spam. Considering all the naked girls, etc. Anyway … cats!
February 17th, 2010 at 7:00 am
[...] This week, we are extremely happy to welcome Elif Batuman as a guest blogger on The Book Bench. Elif’s book, “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,” one chapter of which originated as a piece in The New Yorker, was released yesterday. Since it is a book all about books and fascinating literary subcultures, we thought that, in the process of writing it, Elif would have collected many tidbits that would be of interest to our readers. And her first post, about Pushkin and a sofa, I think proves us right. It helps, of course, that Elif is an old hand at blogging: she’s kept My Life and Thoughts, at elifbatuman.net, for the past few years. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you must: in addition to fine writing, it features a very cute video of her cat. [...]