Mr. David Callison

Useful Links, Just For You

David Foster Wallace was one of my favorite writers.
RIP (1962-2008)
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/david_foster_wallace/index.html

Poets.org
This site is enormous!
http://www.poets.org/

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

Author interviews and readings:
Lots of cool audio here - it's story time!
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/books-audio-archive.html

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/

The Telluride Film Festival Homepage
Labor Day Weekend, '08.  Perhaps the coolest field trip ever?
http://www.telluridefilmfestival.com/

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/

English - Spanish Dictionary
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=welcome

Am I Plagiarizing?
This is a quick tutorial designed to keep you out of trouble.
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

American Film Institute
The AFI is a resource we use a lot in my Film Criticism classes. 
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 ya if you want 
to save them.
You may have to register with them - no big deal.
http://www.afi.com/

The Simpsons Archive
D'oh!
http://snpp.com/

A Poem a Day For American High Schools
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

The Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/

The Internet Movie SCRIPT Database
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. 
 It's a big world out there.
http://www.nytimes.com/

The New Yorker Magazine online.  The New Yorker is one of the best sources 
for new short fiction and poetry, at least in a widely available magazine.
It comes out weekly, too.
http://www.newyorker.com/

National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/

Reference - Dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary.htm

Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.rhymezone.com/

Word of the Day
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl

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

Encyclopedia Brittanica
http://www.britannica.com/#tab=active~home%2Citems~home&title=Britannica%20Online%20Encyclopedia

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/

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