Happy hannukkah! Gridskipper lists their 10 best latke places in New York City.
Book Nerd wants a holiday miracle: NY booksellers to come together.
The anti-holiday: BookFox presents 2006’s outstanding morbid literary excerpts.
Holiday cuteness: Father Christmas meets baby Christmas.
I’d say in a year when you create a baby and a book, reading “only” 25 literary titles is quite an achievement.
Persons of the Year: Time says it’s me! Well, all of us internet content creators, that is (via); when’s the award dinner? Well as silly as that is, Salon went for 20-year-old college student S. R. Sidarth, the Jim Webb campaign worker with a camcorder who drew the racial epithet “macaca.” Put “web” in it and it’s hot!
Meanwhile, the multi-contributor Year In Reading continues at The Millions; it’s one hell of a reading list.
The Emerging Writers Network has announed 20 finalists in its short story competition. Charles D’Ambrosio will select the winner by the end of January.
Matt’s gone to Kenya and Nijihia Mbitiru is stepping into his blogging shoes for the duration.
Sara Gran lives in the new New Orleans, where there aren’t any chain book/music stores. She says it’s the future, and it’s sadder than you’d think.
But maybe the future bodes well for coffee: Laila Lalami has made it to Starbucks-free Casablanca, where the coffeeshops are wonderful.
Golly, another fab redesign when I wasn’t looking. And another.
Whaddaya do when you’ve got the world’s largest manmade island, the world’s tallest tower and the world’s biggest mall? Dubai builds a fully-rotating apartment tower — solar powered, even.
