Links: Work: Good, Thrilla @ JBG, Books: Good

• The Work Week Ahead - Boing Boing
  I like poet Frank Bidart's words in "Advice to the Players" "The greatest luxury is to live a life in which the work that one does to earn a living, and what one has the appetite to make, coincide - by a kind of grace are the same, one.” Here's to a full workweek ahead, not merely four hours but forty plus.
  (tags: work life happiness books ideas)
• Thrilla in Manila
  Thrilla in Manila, a Jen Bekman Project to benefit 826NYC Jane Mount vs. Jason Polan in a no holds barred draw-a-thon at Jen Bekman Gallery Drawing Hours: Wednesday, December 3 - Saturday, December 6 | Noon - 6pm Reception and 826NYC Benefit Sale: Monday, December 8 | 6 p.m. to 8 p.m20x200 Mailing List Exclusive Benefit Edition: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 2PM. An editions of 222 *unique* drawings priced at $20, $200 + $2000 each.
  (tags: drawings gallery events nyc jasonpolan janemount benefit 826NYC jenbekman)
• Op-Ed Contributor - How to Publish Without Perishing - NYTimes.com
  Now, at this point one expects to hear a certain type of sentimental plea for the old-fashioned book — how you like the feel of the thing resting in your hand, the smell of the pages, the faint cracking of the spine when you open a new book — and one may envision an aesthete who bakes his own bread and also professes to prefer the sound of vinyl. That’s not my argument. I do love the heft of a book in my hand, but I spend most of my waking hours looking at — which mainly means reading from — a computer screen. I’m just saying that the book is technology that works.
  (tags: technology publishing books reading)