Links

LITERARY

General sites
* The Blue Notebooks - interviews presented at Columbia University
* BookForum - interviews and book reviews
* Bookworm - interviews with authors
* Center for Book Culture.org - informative literary site, which includes amazing interviews and publications
* 400 Windmills - reading Don Quixote
* The Ledge - long, weird, and awesome interviews with authors around the world; also, be warned that once you start exploring the site, you might never stop, at least not for a long, long time
* The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction - promoting the reading, writing, and enjoyment of literature
* Project Gutenberg - the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks)
* Transcript - bimonthly review of books and writing from around Europe

Author sites
* Lisa Selin Davis - graceful author of Belly
* Karen Heuler - insightful writer, teacher, and dog lover
* Pauls Toutonghi - author of Red Weather

Books
* Loosing My Espanish - brilliant debut novel by the inestimable H. G. Carrillo
* Third Class Superhero - debut story collection by Charles Yu (and yes, the book is as playful as the title suggests)
* Woman with Dark Horses - haunting, stellar debut story collection by Aimee Parkison

Literary Journals
* f a i l b e t t e r - online quarterly
* Orchid: A Literary Review - fiction only, based in Ann Arbor
* Small Spiral Notebook - A Venture into Something Literary . . .
* Swink - bicoastal (L.A. and NYC) literary journal

Small Presses
* Coffee House Press (MN)
* Dalkey Archive Press
* Godine
* Graywolf Press
* MacAdam/Cage (SF)
* Melville House Publishing (Hoboken, NJ)
* Mercury House (SF) - publishes Pierre Michon’s beautiful ruminations
* New Directions (NYC) - best press that publishes Sebald and Bolaño, and which puts out the most gorgeous covers; their myspace page
* Small Beer Press - run by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
* Soft Skull Press

FUN ON THE SIDE
* Burt’s Bees - the best natural remedies for healing skin
* Closeknit Clothing - T-shirts by Sangeetha Kowsik
* Danwei TV videos - Danwei TV’s video clips on life in China
* East Coast Aliens - Brooklyn art salon
* New York Times Crossword - brain food
* Sheryl Murakami - dancing queen
* Theme Magazine - online magazine of contemporary Asian culture
* TripmasterMonkey.com - online pop Asian American magazine