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My buddy Ian Daly showed me this video of novelist Henry Miller cursing up a storm about New York City. I love this place (and so did Miller) but it's great to watch one of my writing heroes get upset about this city. Check it out.

If you want a less negative look at the Big Apple, check out Hugh Crawford's photo of the day site. It's a bittersweet reminder about why we make art in the first place, and how fragile we really are. Thanks to 52 Projects for the link.

Do you love books-inside-of-books? I've always loved the imaginary volumes that show up inside my favorite novels, written by imaginary authors. So does avid reader Levi Stahl, and you should check out his growing imaginary library.

"I encountered yet more fake titles in Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark (1938), then even more--though tipped more towards verisimilitude--last night in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1951), I began to think . . . what better, more Borgesian use could there be for the infinite capacity of the Internet than to assemble a catalog of the world's Fictional Library?" (Thanks to The Dizzies)