Literati roundup: A Web project on Grateful Dead… Grateful Dead as Tech Pioneers…

Roberto Bolaño’s 12 Tips on “the Art of Writing Short Stories”  Open Culture by Josh Jones For some certain romantic reasons, a segment of the English-language reading population fell in love with Roberto Bolaño in the first few years of this millennium. One invariably glimpsed Bolaño’s award-winning 1998 novel The Savage Detectives on endtables and nightstands after its translation in 2007, … Read more

50,000 Norman Rockwell Photographs free… Essential Films for the Student of Philosophy…

50 cultural icons and their favorite books kottke.org Flavorwire collected a list of the favorite books of 50 well-known people, including Bill Murray, Amy Poehler, Ayn Rand, and Caroline Kennedy. Here are some of the picks:   50,000 Norman Rockwell Photographs Now Digitized and Available Online  Open Culture by Colin Marshall Reference photo for Norman Rockwell’s … Read more