Newsday Tuesday

Favorite Tweets:

Favorite Search Terms:

• boobs beach: Are they searching for beaches where they can be top-free or are they just searching for boobs on a beach? Because someone should send this person a sand mermaid.
• Handwritten tutorials bowl movements: Is someone looking for a how-to-to-poop? SERIOUSLY GOOGLE?
• how to use power point and make a project a cat come to the bowel and than cursior click tail of cat and than cat was go back: Yea, this person definitely meant to get my blog.
• i have an idea that my guardian angel often looks like this fb meme: Your search has been answered.

Meme from quickmemes.com…Are memes under fair use?

Book News:

Authors:

• “It’s a Metaphor” @ John Green’s Tumblr
• Things You Didn’t Know About Dickens’s London @ Huff Post
• Maurice Sendak Poster’s For Reading Books @ Brain Pickings
• Harper Lee Slams Alleged Biography @ The Daily Beast
• Scores of Authors Lobby Government To Act On School Libraries @ The Guardian
• 11 Beautiful Friendships Between Classic Authors @ Huff Post
• ‘Cloud Atlas’ Author Is Writing a Tweet Short Story RIGHT NOW @ AllTwitter
• BECAUSE NC GOVERNMENT CAN’T GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER: Governor picks Self-Published Poet as Poet Laureate @ CS Monitor
• 10 Incredible Books By South Asian Authors @ Huff Post
• Elizabeth Gilbert Interview @ Boston Globe
• Nadine Gordimer Offered a Model of How To Use Books as a Social Force @ LA Times
• ‘The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar’ @ New York Times

Image @ Flickr From Creative Commons (Michael Mandiberg)

Chinese Author Is Detained By Police After Writing About Tiananman Square @ NY Times

Writing:

• This Is Your Brain on Writing @ NY Times
• Yehuda Amichai, Art of Poetry No.44 @ Paris Review
• In Defense of Killing Off Main Characters @ Huff Post
• Why Robots Can’t Take Journalists’ Jobs @ Slate
• Do Not Take Writing Advice From the Worst Muse @ io9
• Blogger Fined For Writing Negative Restaurant Review @ Eater
• Are Too Many People Writing Poetry @ Huff Post

Novels:

• The Modern War Novel @ The Rumpus
• Second ‘Mocking Jay’ Trailer is Out @ Book Riot
• 21 Books That Prove You Can’t Choose a Book By It’s Cover @ Buzz Feed
• What We’re Reading This Weekend @ People

Bookishness:

Lemony Snicket Prize Awarded

Ireland: A Literary Analysis Infographic @ Galley Cat

Curtosy to NPR of the National Literary Trust.

London Shows Off Its Love Of Books @ NPR

David Bowie:

David Bowie @ Wikipedia Commons

David Bowie’s List of Top 100 Books @ Open Culture