In Desperate Attempt to Create Content, Blogger Posts Links

Lacking anything even remotely interesting to say myself, I will now perform the traditional blogging ritual of sharing links to other people's stuff, much of which you've probably seen linked to by other people, but it's not like it's my problem that all you do all day is read blogs and follow links, so just shut up and--

Sorry -- I guess the Evil Monkey movie awoke some deeply buried reserve of hostility in me...

• Alex Ross on composer Gyorgi Ligeti
  
• Classic Film Preview on the great Renoir films Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game (easily in my top 5, along with 20 other movies).
  
• The University of Nebraska Press has a blog.
  
• Andy Duncan has a blog.
  
• NYRB: Tim Parks on Beckett, remembering Beckett, and after Beckett.
  
• Edmund White on "The New Gay Fiction".
  
• The Miami Herald discovers Borges.
  
• Ron Silliman on rejecting genres.
  
• Scott Esposito on Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. (I read the book some years back while staying in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where it is set, for a summer. Reading it there enhanced the effect of the book in some weird way, because though I have an intense memory of finding it powerful and bizarre and compelling, I have very little memory of any specific scenes. Maybe it just creates the effect of being an alcoholic on people who are not alcoholics...)