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‘Those are the old standards’: Rolling Stone interviews Barack Obama and gets the lowdown on his taste in music
Ben Eltham at the Wheeler Centre on how digital technology has revolutionised the economics of publishing
And also, The Wall Street Journal looks at how digitisation impacts on authors
If superheroes were hipsters (via Rachel Hills)
Lorrie Moore’s singular appreciation of The Wire
And, in related news, Wire creator David Simon has been awarded a been awarded a MacArthur genius grant (along with Annette Gordon-Reed, David Cromer & Yiyun Li)
The Ford Maddox Ford test: if you open any book and read page 99 out of context, you’ll know whether or not it’s any good
Roxane Gay writes about the question of unpublishing a piece online
The end of activism? Malcolm Gladwell on social networks Facebook and Twitter and their potential (or lack thereof) for creating radical change
Inside the abandoned Battersea Power Station
James Franco’s favourite poems
24 movie trailers that function as standalone works of art
Supernatural Collective Nouns as in ‘a dastardly of manticores’ and ‘a jake of Jedi’
Sam Lipsyte’s short story on role-playing games, ‘The Dungeon Master’
In the Mood for Fiction: ‘There’s something intrinsically optimistic about the process by which tragedy and frailty are turned into art’
And, finally, how ink is made (via kottke)