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Sorry I Haven't Posted
'Inspiring Apologies From Today's World Wide Web' selected by Cory Arcangel
One year of books
French couple who collect books and blog about their finds. They have a great eye for the interesting & unusual.
The Dove Grey Reader
sock-knitting quilter and genius book-blogger
It's Nice That
A favourite source for all that's interesting: they produce a lovely magazine, too.
The Guardian books blog
Ever insightful.
magculture
Jeremy Leslie is the go-to guy for anything and everything about magazines.
Unhappy Hipsters
Can always make me smile
Mono-blog
My very favourite; I'm just sayin'
New Math
Equations for the modern world
Style Rookie
In my dreams I'd be as cool as Tavi Gevinson. And she's only, like, 13. Still, one day.
Other Links Katy Likes
When Jerry Levitan met John Lennon
Completely wonderful animation. Watch it, watch it!
Tone Matrix
I never get tired of playing with these. Love, love, love the way it stops, too. Have a look at his other sound work – it's all good.
What Katy Listened To
Wilco, 'The Whole Love'
Jeff Tweedy & co. on a roll recently
Feist, 'Metals'
Lovely new album from smooth-voiced Canadian Leslie Feist
Fleet Foxes, 'Helplessness Blues'
Like this even better than their first.
Kurt Vile, 'Smoke Ring for my Halo'
Woozily enjoyable
Bon Iver, 'Bon Iver'
Not much not to love.
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The Believer tumblr
Favourite US literary mag
The Believer
now have a tumblr.
Book Club books
Whoops!
John Lanchester's page-turner decoding the world of global finance.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Drugged out in Wales and London
The Sense of an Ending
Maybe in need of a better ending. But good, all the same.
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
Love meets war in this epic novel.
The Paris Wife
The intense relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson, vividly brought to life in 1920s Paris.
Burnt Shadows
Sweeping multi-generational novel from Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Thrilling read from Pulitzer prizewinner, Jennifer Egan
The Finkler Question
D'Jew know Juno?
The Hare with the Amber Eyes
Poised and accomplished family memoir by potter Edmund de Waal.
Couch Fiction
Encounter with Philippa Perry, author of Couch Fiction – a graphic novel about psychotherapy
books
'Important Artifacts...', Leanne Shapton
My book of the year!
'The White Tiger', Aravind Adiga
India, now.
The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris
Brilliant new novel from author of And Then We Came To The End
Generation A, Douglas Coupland
I'd say give it a miss
Legend of a Suicide, David Vann
Fabulous, dark, funny, surprising first novel
Michael Palin: Halfway to Hollywood, diaries 1980-1988
Entertaining & charming
Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler
Wise, funny, adventurous Antarctic travelogue
The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman
Beautiful pictures of the beautifully dressed
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
One of my favourites from 2009, brilliant coming-of-age novel set in the native-American community
The Love of Stones, Tobias Hill
Excellent page-turner of a thriller, with layers of history and evocative prose
Bookshelf
Bookshelf: June
It's Nice That 3, Starburst, It's Only A Movie, Zeitoun and Magiciens Galactiques
Magazines
Mono-Kultur
McSweeney's
Do You Read Me (magazine store, Berlin)
'Little White Lies' and 'Huck'
The Gentlewoman
Vestoj
The Journal of Sartorial Matters
Five Dials
free-to-download magazine from Hamish Hamilton
Underscore
Beautifully designed, eclectic magazine from Singapore
Frankie
Quirky & beautiful, Aussie style.
Bookshops
Ofr, Paris
Do You Read Me?, Berlin
El Ateneo & Boutique del Libro, Buenos Aires