I'm off to New York today, but before I go, here are your tuesday links…

LitKicks takes a ride with Françoise Sagan.

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I love theatre, and I love Virginia Woolf. So why am I not at all interested to see this stage adaptation of The Waves? Beats me. I mean, isn't the disembodied quality of the voices sort of the point of the book? The silent crash of the waves that break over each section? What do you think, am I wrong to write it off? Has anyone seen it?

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Last summer my friend Pauline put together a Super 8 film festival on Santorini, and a few other friends went along to help out.  Everyone stayed at Atlantis Books, which is being heralded as the Shakespeare & Co of the Greek Isles.  N & I are mulling over a trip to Greece this summer, and while we may not make it to this year's film festival, we'll definitely have to stop by the bookshop…

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For reasons that escape me, people seem interested in this book, so even though I hate to give Houellebecq and BHL any more attention than they've already received, here's a short excerpt from Ennemis publics translated into English and published by Harper's.

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A group of female critics (literary and otherwise) have banded together to produce The Golden Notebook Project, which seems pretty cool in itself, but is also a great example of applying webby technology to old fashioned close reading. I think it works marvellously.

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And by popular demand, here's some more of the great Rachel Maddow, "have-er of thoughts." Love the face she makes when Palin talks about the "stinkers" in the media. (via Gay Paris)