New NYT Slide Shows Look Great

A Sugar Hill Town House

3 Interesting Things From Fast Company

1. Pic of Carlos Slim's planned Art Museum/ Office in Mexico City. It looks like one of those middle school math projects where you draw a bunch of lines on a grid at slightly different angles to make a curved object.
2. 11 Green Initiatives at Walmart. Interesting how large of an impact they can have by adopting policies. Local produce!?
3. Article on New Songo, the "most ambitious instant city since Brasilia"

Quick Joshua Ferris Interview

(Vanity Fair)

Just finishing his earlier book and looking forward to this one.

2 Short Stories from the New Yorker

1. Joshua Ferris - The Dinner Party
2. TC Boyle - A Death in Kitchawank

Courtroom Drama

1. Primal Fear -- w Richard Gere, set in Chicago. Great Ed Norton performance. Can't believe I hadn't seen this earlier.
2. Reversal of Fortune -- on Alan Dershowitz defending an upper crust guy "Claus von Bulow" (Jeremy Irons) accused of murdering his much wealthier wife. Really great.

2 Dark Films On Netflix Watch Instantly

1. World's Greatest Dad - one of my favorite Robin Williams performances in a while
2. Big Fan - unsettling and really interesting; Patton Oswalt is great

New Adam Haslett Book Union Atlantic Feb 9

I really liked his short story collection from 2002--You Are Not A Stranger Here--and have been waiting for something new since then. Here's an excerpt from his first novel about a rogue banker, synching with the financial crisis:

Union Atlantic

For some more on the short stories, here's an interview in the Atlantic from 2005.