Links

• Ten (or so) Favorite Books of 2009 [Beatrice]
• A hot new act from the UK called Hurts (pictured) [this.hearts.on.fire]
• Font Porn: Latest V Magazine Object Font [Notcot]
• Colson Whitehead declares January is “ShThFuUpAnWoOnYrNo (Shut the fuck up and work on your novel) Month.” [Twitter, via Maud Newton]
• The Consumer Electronics Show is happening in Vegas. No Porn Convention coverage, yet. [BoingBoing]
• Obama Selling Jackets In Times Square. Bet, he wishes he was a S.A.G member. [Gothamist]
• Carnaval celebrations @ Diane von Furstenberg [Racked]

Photo: Elvis Di Fazio for Guapo.com

• Anderson Cooper Vs. Andy Cohen [BoysandLipstick]
• EVB announces new ‘Cottweiller/EVB Muzzle’ T-shirt [East Village Boys]
• MDX interviews photographer Richard Burbridge [Models.com]
• [PNSFW] Elvis Di Fazio studies the beautiful Antoine Gesson [Guapo.com]
• Benjamin Solomon chats up ‘Precious’ director Lee Daniels [Next]
• Visionaire 2010 [this.hearts.on.fire]

William Gentle features stylish people wearing their own clothes, like the super handsome Wesley Belknap Rose. [Backyard Bill]

Justin wants you to spend your hard earned money on the Broadway Beauty Pageant (sounds like Broadway Bares to me). [Justin Plus One]

Dennis Cooper goes “Deep” inside the Mercado de Sonora in Mexico City. [DC's]

Marcelo Cunning and Amylu Meneses get featured on Billboard en Espanol just in time for their party Sat night. [Nacotheque]

Weston Bingham chats up London-based “it band” We Have Band [East Village Boys]

Michael S. H. gives us a heads-up about Patrick Wolf’s upcoming NYC performance on May 6th @ Le Poisson Rouge [HommeBoy]

Michael Williams shows off Ltd. Ed. Filson bags coming to Urban Outfitters near you. [ACL]

Paddy Johnson interviews quasi art celeb and one-time Sherman partner Paul H-O [Art Fag City]

Dennis Cooper takes an insightful look at sky writing. Look ma! It’s a penis! [DC's]

Stewart Gibson takes a peak at “Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster.” [Dandyism]

Austin Helms does Justin this week. Justin elated. [Justin+1]

Matt talks ‘Topman: The British H&M Boywonder’ [uberesque]

Chris Ryan talks heros and Advocate’s Top 40’s [Justin+1]

Kenneth Walsh obsesses over Terry Hall [Kennethinthe212]

Charles calls VT Senator a Stupid Bitch (and rightly so) [gaysocialites]

Sean Kennedy chats up Broadway’s Nico Muhly [EastVillageBoys]

D. Kareem gives us a “black party” fashion show [BlackoutBlog]

• Paul Sepuya gets interviewed by Interview [Interview]
• Edmund White’s play runs ’til Feb. 15 off Broadway [Times]
• Susan Sontag’s newly published journals, Reborn [NYTBR]
• 5 Poems by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan [Paris Review]
• Poet John Ashbery’s teaser interview [The Believer]

Sophia Loren on of the cover of the 2007 Pirelli Calendar.

Imitation is the finest form of flattery even at 72. Like the ubiquitous Louis Vuitton bucket bag knock-offs, Sophia Loren’s imitators are many, but few deliver the exquisite, subtle beauty of the real thing. Variety bloggers caught a glimpse of one of Ms. Loren’s latest drag-doppelgangers amidst champagne sipping celebs at the Entertainment Tonight Emmy Party on Sunday night in LA.

…with her convincing cleavage-and-glasses ensemble… The impersonator, who was accompanied by a less convincing Dolly Parton lookalike, was spotted wandering around Walt Disney Concert Hall where the post-Emmy bash was held. There were murmurs and double-takes among the crowd as she stood chit-chatting with “Dolly”, watching Billy Idol perform. [Stylephile]

David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories and essays made him an heir to modern virtuosos like Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, an experimental contemporary of William T. Vollmann, Mark Leyner and Nicholson Baker and a clear influence on younger tour-de-force stylists like Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, Calif. He was 46. [New York Times]

• Another brilliant article by Stephen Marche about our obsession with coming -of-age-celebrities, their very public meltdowns, and the blurry line between adolescence and adulthood. [Esquire]
• Japanese author Haruki Murakami on Billie Holiday et al in the latest issue of The Believer. Murakami’s memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running was published last month. [The Believer]
• A quick review of William Shakespeare and modern culture. More Kenneth Branagh than Hamlet 2 — both equally smart. [LA Times]
• How long can you go without having sex? A couple falls into an unintentional love-making marathon. I smell a book deal. [Nerve]