sunday short stack

"Only a world without love would be worse than one without music." - Kingsley Amis

• 100 Notable Books of 2009 from The New York Times
• Oddly Specific: The Strangely Particular Website About Peculiarly Exacting Signs (via @GreatDismal)
• So you have invented Twitter. Congratulations. This is where that time machine would definitely have come in quite handy.
• Mary Gaitskill, Lionel Shriver, Walter Kirn, and others contribute to New York Magazine's Political Fictions Project.
• LA Weekly's Post-Apocalyptic Playlist
• What does indie mean to you?
• Rick Moody starts his 153-tweet fiction project tomorrow @ElectricLit.
• The AV Club's 10 best short-story collections of the ’00s
• No duh: Jack White is The Observer's rock 'n roll start of the decade (via @largeheartedboy)
• The Guardian's Best Books of 2009
• Make sure you have some time: The 99 Most Jaw-Dropping Movie Moments