The "This I Believe" homepage. There are hundreds of examples of 'TIB' essays here, some in audio
versions.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138
American Film Institute
All of the '100 Best...' lists are here. Go to "Quick Links" at the top and
then to "100 Best... Lists" - they're there in PDF form for you.
You have to register with this site, but it's no big deal.
http://www.afi.com/
English - Spanish Dictionary
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=welcome
Featured Authors
This takes you deep into the NY Times Book section, and features articles on
lots of the serious writers from the last 50 years or so.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/books-featured-authors-archive.html
The Big Picture: Patrick Goldstein on the collision of entertainment, media and pop
culture. This is a great source of current information about the movie business.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/
Albuquerque Public Library System
Do you have a current library card? You have Internet access, so get the
number off your card, and order up some books. They'll send them quickly to
the branch that's most convenient to you.
IT'S FREE, SO WHY NOT UTILIZE THIS GREAT RESOURCE?
Hmm? Why not?
http://www.cabq.gov/library/
Reading Rants, a website featuring out of the ordinary booklists for teens, has been an online
presence since 1998. Written by Jennifer Hubert and designed by Andrew Mutch, Reading Rants has
become a popular book review source for teenagers as well as their grown-ups.
http://www.readingrants.org/
The official Sherman Alexie site
http://www.fallsapart.com/
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
This site is huge! This site is amazing! It contains links to hundreds of magazines, blogs and
newspapers, among other things.
http://www.aldaily.com/
Living With Music / Paper Cuts
This is a blog in the NY Times that features writers of various types
talking about their favorite music. I find some good stuff to listen to here.
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/living-with-music/
Poets.org
This site is enormous!
http://www.poets.org/
Am I Plagiarizing?
This is a quick tutorial designed to keep you out of trouble.
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/
Movie Review Intelligence "A professional standard for measuring and understanding reviews."
http://moviereviewintelligence.com/index.aspx?
Film Noir: an introduction
http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
The homepage for "The Wire." In my humble opinion, probably the best show on TV. Ever.
Watch some for yourself and decide.
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/
A Poem a Day For American High Schools
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was one of my favorite writers.
If you're feeling ambitious, check out "Infinite Jest."
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/david_foster_wallace/index.html
The Internet Movie Database: the definitive source of movie information.
THE way to settle that dispute about who that actor was in that movie.
You know the one I mean.
http://www.imdb.com/
Author interviews and readings:
Lots of cool audio here - it's story time!
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/books-audio-archive.html
The Internet Movie SCRIPT Database
Cut and paste that cool dialogue from your favorite movie.
Heck, memorize it!
http://www.imsdb.com/
Index of Specialized Search Engines
(lots of resources here)
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html
The New York Times is free online, so stay informed.
Probably the finest American newspaper - still.
http://www.nytimes.com/
The New Yorker Magazine online. The New Yorker is one of the best sources
for new short fiction and poetry. Period.
http://www.newyorker.com/
National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/
The Simpsons Archive
D'oh!
http://snpp.com/
The Telluride Film Festival Homepage
http://www.telluridefilmfestival.com/
Reference - Dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary.htm
Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.rhymezone.com/
News from CNN's angle. Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool.
http://www.cnn.com/
A Dictionary of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/bartlett
This is a book list for you if you're all about the rock thing.
http://www.readingrants.org/category/deadheads-and-mosh-pits/
Here's a book list called Historical Fiction for Hipsters.
http://www.readingrants.org/category/historical-fiction-for-hipsters/
"a really fast dictionary"
http://ninjawords.com/
Pauline Kael was a truly great film critic, back when the term meant something. These are excerpts
from thousands of her reviews.
http://www.geocities.com/paulinekaelreviews/
Albuquerque's Guild Cinema. Support independent film (and theaters).
http://guildcinema.com/
Metacritic. "We deal with criticism."
http://www.metacritic.com/
Garfield Minus Garfield
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
Vandergrift's 100: A good list of Young Adult authors and titles
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/YoungAdult/100list.html