• Enrique Vila-Matas appears at the Hispanic Society on March 3 to discuss Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s “Chronotopes & Dioramas”.
• Stephen Mitchelmore’s commentary on David Shields’s Reality Hunger is the only intelligent piece on the book that I’ve seen.
• At the Neglected Books site, an appreciation of the great George Leonard Herter, author of many useful books.

• Audio of Weldon Kees, recorded in Berkeley in 1952, is available at the Poetry Foundation.
• An excerpt from the new Gilbert Sorrentino novel is up at the Brooklyn Rail.
• Douglas Messerli of Sun & Moon/Green Integer has a new blog, American Cultural Treasures.
• A short piece on Victorian collage that I wrote at Hotel St. George.

• LACMA has been digitizing old catalogues, which are now online using the Internet Archive’s book presentation software.
• Warren Motte in conversation with Martin Riker at Words Without Borders.
• Michael Haneke’s Three Paths to the Lake, his 1976 film adaptation of an Ingeborg Bachmann short story, is showing tomorrow at 7:30 at Anthology Film Archives, part of a series of adaptations of Austrian writers put on by the Austrian Cultural Forum.

• Hugh Kenner’s essays on computers in the Harper’s archive (subscription required): “Out my computer window: Travels in the land of BIX”, from November 1989 on how one used computer bulletin boards then; and “The wherefores of how-to”, from March 1984, on computer magazines and the do-it-yourself tradition.
• Worthy of close inspection – especially in the light of recent hubbub about the accuracy of Google’s scanning – is Kenner’s “The computerized Ulysses: Establishing the text Joyce intended” (April 1980), describing in loving detail the horrifically primitive computers used to generate the Gabler Edition.
• New York Earwicker Night is covered in El Pais.

• A tribute to Jonathan Williams at Jacket.
• Various things I have written: some posts for if:book (1, 2, 3); a short post for the Hotel St. George blog on end-of-the-year lists; and, most interesting, an interview with Damion Searls at HSG.
• David R. Godine will be at the Grolier Club on January 13, part of a discussion entitled “Current Challenges to Fine Printing and Book Design.”
• There’s a tremendous amount of interesting audio at the Key West Literary Seminars audio archive page

• An audio interview of Dick Higgins at Cal Arts in 1971 at the Internet Archive (via Ron Silliman).
• The introduction of Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History, Beginnings to 1600 is online at Continuum’s website in fantastically unwieldy format.
• Paul Collins on the history of Omni & futures that didn’t arrive.

Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from Henning Lederer on Vimeo.