I did a quick search for "favorite blogs" and came up empty, so hopefully there isn't an older thread I've somehow missed, but anyway, anyone care to share their favorite literary-type blogs?
I'm a big fan of Zite, which is similar to FlipBoard, and I've discovered lots of new blogs that way, as Zite has slowly learned to cater to my own particular taste curve.
Right now, my favorite new blog is Biblioklept. It satisfies my craving for "museum art" in a way that makes me feel less bad for living in a medium-sized city with a pretty damn mediocre art museum.
They're also fond of excerpting literary passages just for the heck of it.
Just recently they posted a very short, one-act play by Delillo, which I scanned but haven't yet read because I'm too busy trying to multi-task my multi-tasking.
Sometimes they'll post a film clip.
It's all interesting.
They let the art speak for itself.
Did you know there is such a thing as a cryptoencyclopedia? I learned that on Biblioklept.
While browsing Biblioklept, I can sometimes feel my eyebrows widen and my synapses fire extra hot.
Um, I only read the standard stuff often, rumpus and believer and paris review blogs and the like, and authors' blogs I check in on. There is though Fuck Yeah, Manuscripts! which is fun to look up.
also:
Renfield, here's a blog kind of like Vintage Sleaze or Pulp International, in that it has lots of pictures of a more or less specific theme. The only connecting thread in vintage everyday is (surprise!) the vintage factor, but I think it works really, really well as an accidental prompt factory.
The pictures that make it to the blog are often intriguing and with the right perspective applied, thought-provoking.
Here are a few examples:
Chuck Wendig's terribleminds.com
Scalzi's Whatever: whatever.scalzi.com
Tobias Buckell's blog at tobiasbuckell.com
Boing Boing: boingboing.net
. . . and alexkanefiction.com is pretty damn good, too.
Not from a "favorite blog", but I stumbled upon this picture and, well, thought it was really cool. Like the writer, I find its starkness compelling, as if some prehistoric animal was simply blown through the wall eons ago and out into the sea. Despite its spines, the rounded head (to the left) makes me think it might have been friendly, or at least an omnivore.
From Writerly Life:
