• The 50 Greatest Cartoons, with video. (via Kevin Smokler)
• The Times: “Educated people are not supposed to believe in ghosts. This has done nothing to diminish their popularity, at least in fiction.” (via Kenyon Review)
• Children of Men: the book vs. the film.
• The next generation’s vocabulary is, like, diminishing. (via Maud)
• The San Francisco Chronicle offers a list of 2006 deaths, with many authors and journalists. Conspicuously absent are the great talents Octavia Butler and Gilbert Sorrentino, demonstrating that you can win a MacArthur Genius Grant or radically influence experimental fiction and still not earn so much as a sentence from the mainstream media.
• CNN: “A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, scientists said.” No global warming, eh? (via Michelle Richmond)
• Israeli literary critic Gershon Shaked has died.
• Reports of the American movie’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
• The excellent 10 Zen Monkeys serves up an overview on world sex laws.
• This week in ridiculous book trailers: Hannibal Rising. (via Ghost in the Machine)
• Kitchen Sink Magazine is folding. (via Warren Ellis)
• Historical Fiction for Hipsters. (via Largehearted Boy)
• Mr. Ewins is going crazy with the top ten lists.
• Reuters’ Mark Porter investigates the ongoing demise of the indie bookstore.
• Print aesthetic pleasantries from Fade Theory.
• Contributors to the New Yorker Winter Fiction issue share their fave books of 2006. Ian McEwan’s faves are particularly interesting.
• “Jack”: “the name of an instrument that supplies the place of a boy.” Well, that’s being a bit coy about a euphemism, Webster.
• Hitch on Gerald Ford.
• A tourist map of Gotham City.
• From earlier this year: Lethem on James Brown. (via Telescreen
• Technorati vs. Google Book Search.
• Well, I, for one, cannot be bribed or have my opinion purchased. Absolutely no price.

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