by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 10, 2010 | Asides
From Daring Fireball: Special issue of Hamish Hamilton’s excellent literary magazine, “A celebration of the life of David Foster Wallace with contributions by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, George Saunders and others.†Designed by our old friend...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 7, 2010 | Asides
As always, a worthwhile read. Tablet Musings | via Daring Fireball
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 10, 2009 | Commentary, Featured, Writing
Two great posts from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball yesterday. First, a piece in the New Yorker about the recent auction of Cormac McCarthy’s ancient Olivetti Lettera 32, the typewriter that McCarthy bought in a Knoxville, TN pawnshop for $50 and on...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 21, 2009 | Asides
John Gruber’s very thoughtful, very detailed assessment of the whys, wherefores, and timing of the Wall Street Journal’s un-sourced reveal at midnight on Friday that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant in Tennessee.Daring Fireball: Regarding the WSJ’s...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 10, 2009 | Asides, Commentary, On miPod
I neglected to link to the 43 Folders Podcast with Merlin Mann and John Gruber that I was talking about the other day. So, here it is. While you’re at it, Northeast Public Radio has an excellent weekly program called the Media Project, which I’ve just...