Fat Cactus
JA
February 26
This week from webbage:
Three Guys One Book on why publishers should use bloggers to generate pre-release hype
How to write a Twitter bio: ‘You can add “-ista” to the end of literally any word to make yourself sound approximately 47 times more stylish and savvy. (ex. Digitalista or Barista or Unemployista)’
Arundhati Roy at Guernica: ‘Each time I write I promise myself I’ll never do it again’
Nam Le on ventriloquism, identity, and voices from elsewhere, at The Wheeler Centre Gala Night of Storytelling
Jessa Crispin on women in art
8-bit Nintendo version of The Great Gatsby
And, finally, Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski
Our Friends
- Overland
- Alien Onion
- Ampersand Duck
- Andrew McDonald
- A Pair of Ragged Claws
- Arts Victoria
- Australia Council for the Arts
- Ben Eltham
- Bookshow blog
- CAL
- City of Tongues
- Crikey
- darkly wise, rudely great
- David Astle
- Elmo Keep Does Stuff
- The Ember
- Fly the Falcon blog
- Going Down Swinging
- Griffith Review
- Hackpacker
- Harvest
- HEAT
- Island
- Killings blog
- Literary Minded
- Lorraine Crescent
- Lynden Barber
- Mandy Ord
- Marcus Westbury
- Matilda
- Meanland
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Mel Campbell
- The Monthly
- Musings of an Inappropriate Woman
- Oslo Davis
- Paul Callaghan
- Read, Think, Write
- Sleepers Publishing
- Sorrow at Sills Bend
- SPLOG
- Tom Cho
- Virgule
- Wet Ink
- Wheeler Centre
Comments
26 Feb 11 at 13:30
The Great Gatsby Nintendo game! OMG. Where do you find all of this stuff Jess? It’s great. Thanks for sharing.
You might also like this article on changes at Harper’s: http://www.observer.com/print/140136
...27 Feb 11 at 11:25
I have my sources (otherwise known as spending hours wasting time on the interwebs). Thanks for the link – will check it out.
...27 Feb 11 at 21:07
That Great Gatsby game is slightly addictive… even if I do keep dying! LOL. This week’s Fat Cactus (whoever came up with that name is a genius!) has some really interesting links! :)
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