From argle-bargle to snollygoster: are these the 100 funniest words in English?
On this day in 1970, James Dickey published Deliverance. His son Christopher recalls: “it seemed to me then and for a long time afterward that forces of self-indulgence and self-destruction, which were always there in my father but held in check, were now cut loose.”
Check out Oronte Churm on Nabokov’s Pnin: “The presentation is all boldness, shining threads of gold, and beautiful mists, but it’s that “distance” that wreaks havoc…”
And another totally great reading: David Bordwell’s microanalysis of Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, which is a movie that I think about often, even though I didn’t enjoy it at all.
“… but he is our academic peer…” Should James Franco give a commencement speech?
The 2009 Diagram Award for the Oddest Book Title has a winner: The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais.
This is total bullshit. The Large Sieve and its Applications was robbed.
