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Literature

• BookWormz
  Find independent bookstores near you! A community project of like-minded readers.
• Emerging Writers Network
  Community network of writers on the make.
• London Review of Books
  “The London Review of Books is the liveliest, the most serious and also the most radical literary magazine we have.” — Alan Bennett
• MetaxuCafe
  The litblog portal.
• New York Review of Books
  Q: If the entire contents of the archives were printed on one line, at the same size type used in the Review’s print edition, how long would that line be? A: 255 miles, or about the same distance as New York City to Kennebunkport, Maine.
• onepotmeal
  reading, writing, nature, culture, and bears with bad habits.
• PubSub Litblogs
  Litblog aggregator.
• Rain Taxi
  Review of books (based in the Twin Cities, but intergalactic in scope).
• SlushPile.net
  the writing and publishing world exposed.
• The Complete Review
  The world of literature is bigger than we in the States can possibly imagine.
• The Poetry Foundation
  Making poetry cool
• Unprintable Version
  a personal reading notebook from St. Paul.
• Writer’s Almanac
  Garrison Keillor’s daily bit of poetry and literary history

Literary Journals

• Avery Anthology
  a new bi-annual literary journal.
• Ballyhoo Stories
  A literary journal of fiction and creative non-fiction.
• Duck & Herring
  A quarterly mix of everything literary and sub-literary: recipes, stories, to-do lists …
• Eletric Velocipede
  Oddly ancient and far-sighted at once–nostalgia for yesterday’s future.
• Eyeshot
  Funk and fiction.
• Failbetter
  An online quarterly of fiction, poetry, art, and interviews.
• JMWW
  An online journal based in Baltimore, now celebrating its first print publication.
• Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
  The zine to end all zines.
• Pindeldyboz
  A print and web journal that lives a little on the edge.
• small.spiral.notebook
  One of the best on-line (and print) literary journals for fiction and creative non-fiction.
• storySouth
  fiction and essays from below the Mason-Dixon Line, and the home of the Million Writers award.
• The Strange Fruit
  A biannual journal of fiction and poetry.
• The Summerset Review
  A quarterly on-line journal.

Writers

• Haruki Murakami
  Kafka on the Shore, Wind-up Bird Chronicle
• John Baker’s Blog
  Thoughts on literature from John Baker, British novelist.
• Kelly Link
  Magic for Beginners, Stranger Things Happen, and other weird and wonderful tales
• Kitty Burns Florey
  her book on diagraming sentences is “delightfully geeky”, according to Kirkus Reviews.
• TC Boyle
  A modern master of the short story.
• Theodora Goss
  In the Forest of Forgetting and other fairy tales for our times

Photoblogs

• A Little Piece of the World
  Faustina captures her world in photographs and haiku.
• A Walk Through Durham Township
  Kathleen Connally roams Bucks County, PA, and captures the most amazing images on her travels.
• Big Happy Funhouse
  Found memories.
• Blather de la semaine
  Baltimore life and pictures.
• Catherine Jamieson
  The grande-dame of photobloggers; this is the site that made me think, “I’d like to try that …”
• echo
  Therese’s haunting black and white images.
• gallery(Bea)
  Moody and evocative, the next Sally Mann or Nancy Rexroth.
• hello
  Another of the trailblazers in the photoblog realm–marvelous design and a great mix of cameras.
• hmmn
  musings from the Far East: Japan, photography, other stuff.
• incidence
  playful plastic from Togo.
• Making Happy
  one human life (as lived and documented in Toronto)
• Out of Contxt
  Chicago blur!
• outafocus
  Susan Burnstine is an inspiration for anyone who thinks sharpness is overrated.
• Perspective Images
  sweeping scenes from way out West
• Photoblogs.org
  the original photoblog portal.
• pinkie style
  wonderfully playful and funky shots with various “bad” cameras (I’m especially drawn to the Brownie Hawkeye shots, of course).
• slowlight - a pinhole blog
  Katie Cooke (aka heyoka) holds forth on pinhole and alternative process photography.
• Squid Action
  Words and Pictures from Minnesota.
• Your Waitress Photos
  Valerie Cochran serves tasty pics from San Francisco.

Photomemes

• Lens Day
  The Wednesday challenge.
• Moody Monday
  The Monday challenge.
• Photo Friday
  The Granddaddy of photo challenges.
• Photo Tuesday
  The original Tuesday challenge (RIP)
• Pxite
  Sunday’s challenge.
• See it Sunday
  Sunday’s challenge.
• Shutterday
  A Saturday challenge.
• Thursday Challenge
  refreshingly non-competitive themes for Thursdays.
• Tuesday Challenge
  Tuesday’s photo challenge.

Photography

• AlternativePhotography.com
  Not for the faint of heart: old and new methods for writing with light.
• JPG Magazine
  snazzy publication, with a nifty new web community, celebrating 2 years of photographic goodness
• ToyCamera.com
  fantastic plastic.

Webbiness

• A List Apart
  The granddaddy of web design resources.
• Airbag Industries
  great style and design.
• All Too Flat
  responsible for the Google Mirror (see below).
• Bearskinrug
  The harmonious unification of design, art, & lackluster humor.
• Browse Happy
  get yourself a new browser.
• Frosk
  a melancholic time travel
• Google Mirror
  as in backwards; really. I found it in a referrer record for a backwards-titled post, and I have to say it's clever to a fault.
• Smashing Magazine
  A great source of solid design ideas.
• Stylegala
  Fresh inspiration.

Politics

• a bitter fruit
  Paul Fusco’s depictions of the cost of war.
• Mother Jones
  still one tough lady.
• The Nation
  old standby.
• The Progressive
  Bob LaFollette's rag, still going strong.
• True Majority
  ice cream and activism.
• What I Heard about Iraq
  The spin-free history of the Iraq War.

Comix

• HER! [Girl vs Pig]
  A curious girl who enjoys seeing the pig experience pain and embarassment. She wears a red dress and white socks.
• Mose
  daily yucks.
• PHD Comics
  Piled Higher and Deeper
• The Perry Bible Fellowship
  Occasional comics from Nicholas Gurewitch
• xkcd
  a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language

Local Stuff (Minneapolis and beyond)

• Dowling Community Garden
  Located in South Minneapolis, this 60+-year old community garden is a local landmark and an inspirational location for my photographs.
• Drama Mater
  The mind behind the “Merlin’s Rest” site.
• EastLake.net
  My end of Lake Street.
• Merlin’s Rest
  The best little pub in South Minneapolis (alas, a downtown establishment has taken Brendan Behan’s “seo é an teach taibhairne is fearr a chuir bod i bpis…” tagline…)
• Night Editor
  A St. Paul editor’s blog.

Myself, Elsewhere

• claimID
  My online identity as managed at claimID.com
• CoolPhotoblogs.org - From a Farther Room
  My profile at CoolPhotoblogs
• Daily Dickinson
  A new project of mine - just like the name suggests, it’s an Emily Dickinson poem (and a Michael Hartford photograph) every day.
• Fifty Two Encounters
  An interplanetary meeting a week for 2008
• flickr stream
  Outtakes, series, and other photographic stuff.
• Library Thing
  The stuff on my shelves.
• mnartists.org Artist Homepage
  My little corner of the site sponsored by the McKnight Foundation and the Walker Art Center’s New Media Initiatives group
• My Utata Page
  It was Catherine Jamieson’s site that first got me interested in photoblogging; this is my little part of the community she’s built.
• Photoblogs.org - My Profile
  my photoblog bookmarks.
• pinned & wriggling at Etsy
  My black and white prints for sale at Etsy
• Publications
  Some other words of mine.
• Squidoo Lens - Short Fiction
  my take on stories and tales.
• Squidoo Lens - Toy and Vintage Cameras
  My take on the magic of plastic and bakelite photo contraptions

Shopping

• Lulu
  Calendars and such.
• My Amazon.com wishlist
  just in case you want to buy me something nice …
• Powell’s Books
  Your independent bookstore, on line! (Selective cullings provided by my highly idiosyncratic lack of taste.)
• Sassy Lu Salon
  Need a haircut? Sarah will be glad to dock your locks.
• Zazzle
  Prints, cards, and coffee cups.

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