The Useful Life: A Crown to the Simple Life

From www.archive.orgI oftentimes cannot believe my luck-- our luck-- with archive.org. I've been writing and researching for my writing long enough to well remember when finding books was a question of going to the library or, in some cases, shelling out the money for a copy....

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Why I Am a Mega-Fan of the Filofax

It was wicked fun doing a post a for Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools blog on my seriously uncool Internet password management system, so I just had to write about my other favorite paper-based organizing tool, the Filofax Personal Organizer. (Note: I have no connection whatsoever with...

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Cyberflanerie: Harry Ransom, Michael K. Schuessler, Tina Larkin, Sophy Burnham, Clay Shirky & more

Researchers and translators take note: The Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas has just made available a magnificent collection, with data base, of Spanish Theater and "Comedias Sueltas." Read more in English or in Spanish.My amigo Michael K. Schuessler has just published a...

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Cyberflanerie: Book Binding, Laundry Apps, POWs, Translations, Speedometers, Yogic Intersections & Etc.

Jeff Peachy has been binding books for 25 yearsSilicon Valley's Laundry App Race (NY Magazine)James Cecil Collier (1923-2014) RIP. One of the last of the POWs of WWII.My dad's book, Captured: The Forgotten Men of Guam, still getting great reviews.Roger Greenwald has just published GUARDING THE AIR: SELECTED POEMS OF GUNNAR HARDING. He...

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My Novel about Palacio in Palacio

This is all in Spanish, but I know many of you, dear readers, do speak it. So here's the big news: my novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, translated by Agustín Cadena as El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano, will be featured on Tuesday July 15, 2014 in the...

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Cyberflanerie: Mexico City, Patzcuaro, Tijuana & Tulum Edition

You're Eating Fake Tacos and Diana Kennedy is Pissed About It  by Daniel HernandezP.S. Diana Kennedy is a true treasure: teacher, caretaker, visionary. Her name may not be hispanic, but she knows Mexican cuisine better than anyone, including, yes, the Mexicans.The...

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Kate Phillips' essay in The Atlantic: Springtime in Tiananmen Square

My amiga the writer Kate Phillips, an eyewitness to 1989, has just published this riveting piece in The Atlantic onli...

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Cyberflanerie: Bookstores, Happening & Not

C'est moi, C.M. Mayo, with Uli Quetzalpugtlvisiting Prairie Lights in Iowa CityRecently as I breezed through Iowa City, of course-- but of course-- I stopped in at Prairie Lights, the book lover's midwestern Mecca, which I last visited in (uyyy) 1990. In tow: puglet Uli Quetzalpugtl,...

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The Changing of the Guards (A Comment on Self-Publishing)

I couldn't resist jumping in on this one. Here's my comment to Saurav Dutt's blog post, "The Changing of the Guards."@intralingo [Lisa Carter] tweeted this blog post, which is how I found it. I didn't have it served up to me in the NYT or whatever. The whole writing & reading scene is going horizontal & networked, that's the thing.I'm...

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From Axis Mundi to Mappa Mundi: Great Temples and Sacred Bundles in Aztec Society: the 2014 Divinity School Alumnus of the Year lecture, by Davíd Carrasco

Via the University of Chicago alumni newsletter:From Axis Mundi to Mappa Mundi: Great Temples and Sacred Bundles in Aztec Society: the 2014 Divinity School Alumnus of the Year lecture, by Davíd Carrasco.Davíd Carrasco (ThM 1970, MA 1974, PhD in the History of Religions area, 1977) as the Divinity School's Alumnus of the Year for 2014. Carrasco is the...

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Cyberflanerie: Others Did It So I Don't Have To Edition

(But did she ever get to Alaska?)Live through an Alaskan Winter in an RVWatch a Famous 4 Hour Interview with Mega-Famous Movie Star María Félix(via David Lida. David, Did you actually watch this?)Figure Out in Crunchy Techno-Industrial Detail What Happened to Tom CruiseP.S....

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LOLcat Du Jour

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New Vessel Press: Read Your Way Around the World

As a literary translator and long-ago editor of the now-defunct Tameme, I sat up and took serious notice of this beautiful new effort out of New York: New Vessel Press. Warmest wishes to you! Dear readers, do check this out.COMMENTS always welcomeMore anon. I have been in IngramSpark...

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Cyberflanerie: Alain de Botton on Pessimism

Well worth watchi...

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