Nine pages from author David Shields's upcoming (well, it'll be out in 2009, so not that upcoming) book, "Reality Hunger," courtesy of Willow Springs magazine. Shields is awesome -- his books Remote, Black Planet, and Enough About Me are all terrific books, Shields occupies this space between non-fiction and personal essay, where you're able to get into his head and really see how he thinks, and, I don't know, his writing just really appeals to me. He has a book coming out in February called "The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead," which I can't wait to read.
A pretty cool find as I was completely wasting time clicking around on Facebook -- someone I know from law school has a band, with two of his brothers, and even though the audio clips didn't work on my computer, under Video, "All The While" is pretty awesome. Especially for a law student. Gosh. I suppose it's Goo Goo Dolls-esque. It's really good, check it out. [Oh, just realized, they have a MySpace page where you can listen to their stuff, that's much easier to deal with than the website.]
And while I'm linking to music, my friend David, who performs live around NYC as Johnny Hancock, has some music files up, different from the last time I linked, maybe 18 months ago. "Owls" has been getting pretty consistent play on my iTunes, really cool stuff.
And a funny piece on ESPN about Tiger Woods, written by my friend Bob, who also has a golf blog, where he's posted the "director's cut" of the piece, with "writer's commentary," pretty awesome.
And, finally, a funny compendium of media errors of the year here. Funniest ones:
Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand):
OUR STORY on the price of tomatoes last week misquoted Alistair Petrie, general manager of Turners and Growers. Discussing the price of tomatoes Petrie was talking about retail rate not retail rape. We apologise for the misunderstanding.
The Guardian:
Australian cricketer Don Bradman was carried, not curried, off the field during the Ashes series in August 1938 (Heroic Hutton leads England to 903, page 12, the archive, November 6).
The Guardian:
In They live by night, page 4, G2 August 27, we wrote about a man who beat bats to death with a dingy paddle; we meant dinghy paddle.
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