Today’s links of interest:
- Last Minute Media Halloween Costume Ideas
Never say that we don’t offer a full-service blog! - Student Finds Unpublished Plath Poem
The world is now complete. - Pentagon mounts public affairs ops to counter bad news, exploit "new media"
In a previous era, this was also known as "propaganda". - Help Us Hack the Publishing System!
Or at least Amazon. - A Slave Story Is Rediscovered, and a Dispute Begins
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman. Possibly not. But let us not focus on who did what first, and, instead, look at what the work tells us (like the taste for Gothic extended far beyond the shores of Britain…). - Book Clubbed
The guiding force behind current anti-Iranian sentiment? "Reading Lolita in Tehran". Right. Because it couldn’t be the president of the country, could it? - A granddad of gonzo journalism
In a way, it wouldn’t have been Hunter S. Thompson without Ralph Steadman. New memoir that someone might want to buy. - How to be funny
Speaking of effective endings…start with the punchline first.