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

Today is 12 September 2013. This is the 33rd anniversary of 1980 coup d’etat…

via @iskenderbaydar If not prevented, another coup to come not through army but police forces… The photo below taken in Kadıköy, İstanbul is from the early hours of 12 September 2013 as protesters clash with police…. A few images of 1980 coup…