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Jay Seliger 10 Jun 2013 | 04:54 am
Hi… I’m Jay Seliger. Welcome to my website. I’m a technology fan and I’m going to be writing about all things tech related. It’s going to be a unique take on the tech world as seen through my eyes! I’...
Those are European ideas in Anaïs Nin’s Little Birds 30 May 2012 | 12:53 pm
Anaïs Nin’s story “A Model” begins with this: My mother had European ideas about young girls. I was sixteen. I had never gone out alone with young men, I had never read anything but literary novels, ...
Thinking about the process of being an artist and a writer: Lessons from David Galenson’s Old Masters and Young Geniuses 29 May 2012 | 07:02 pm
David Galenson’s Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity is the rare academic book that’s also useful for artists—most academic books are as useful for artists as sy...
Game of Thrones and the tedium of Season 2′s war episode, “Blackwater” 29 May 2012 | 09:46 am
Scott Meslow writes that “In ‘Game of Thrones,’ War Changes Everyone: The stunning, episode-long Battle of Blackwater* leaves no character untouched,” and while he might be correct on that front, the ...
Design.Y Notebook Review: The Record 216 25 May 2012 | 08:41 pm
The most salient feature of the Design.Y “Record 216″* is its price, which varies with the Yen-to-dollar exchange rate but currently hovers around $70 with shipping. Those of you who can do simple mat...
What you should know BEFORE you start grad school in English Literature: The economic, financial, and opportunity costs 23 May 2012 | 06:05 am
This post started life as an e-mail to a teacher who is thinking about going to grad school in English Literature. I expanded and cleaned it up slightly for the blog, but the substance remains the sam...
Links: Funny words, climate change, things the U.S. does right, writers, self-publishing, Seattle’s Escala condo building as the site of depravity, an... 19 May 2012 | 10:57 am
* I got into an argument with a friend about whether “mollusk” is an inherently funny word. I argued yes. Discuss. * Game over for the climate, which is one of those important articles you won’t read...
Life: The writer edition 16 May 2012 | 07:24 pm
In speculating “as to why anyone embarks on the adventure of writing” Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL) says in Public Enemies that you write to find out not so much who you are as who you’re becoming. I beli...
Product Review: The Leuchtturm 1917 notebook 13 May 2012 | 05:08 pm
The Leuchtturm 1917 is perfectly competent. It’s slightly larger than a Moleskine, when a notebook should be, if anything, slightly smaller. This is a small point. The paper quality is, to my eye and ...
The new notebook stack: 13 May 2012 | 05:03 pm
In “Eight years of writing and the first busted Moleskine,” I posted a picture of the notebook stack on one of my bookshelves. It has expanded since: The orange notebook is a Rhodia Webbie, and I dis...
